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An architecture for autonomous flying vehicles: A preliminary report

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This paper presents an architecture for task independent autonomous flying vehicles. First, we review the conventional architectures such as the model-and-planner, behavior-based, and the subsumption architectures. Second, we propose a strategic architecture, an adaptive composition of a set of strategic multiagents, which could overcome many limitations of the existing architectures. Each strategy is designated to deal with a task and the composition of strategies tackle more complex task. The proposed strategic architecture maintains a uniform design for its low level control, high level planning, and multi-robot co-operative system thus facilitating strategies' composition and abstraction. This highly modular organization is hardware independent and increases the reusability of strategies.

This research is supported by RGC grant HKUST 610/94E.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Lam-Fan Lee & Alex Kean

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Lee, LF., Kean, A. (1996). An architecture for autonomous flying vehicles: A preliminary report. In: Foo, N., Goebel, R. (eds) PRICAI'96: Topics in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1114. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61532-6_52

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