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An Intelligent Architecture for Autonomous Virtual Agents Inspired by Onboard Autonomy

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Intelligent Systems'2014

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 322))

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Intelligent virtual agents function in dynamic, uncertain, and uncontrolled environments, and animating them is a chaotic and error-prone task which demands high-level behavioral controllers to be able to adapt to failures at lower levels of the system. On the other hand, the conditions in which space robotic systems such as spacecraft and rovers operate, inspire by necessity, the development of robust and adaptive control software. In this paper, we propose a generic architecture for developing autonomous virtual agents that let them to illustrate robust deliberative and reactive behaviors, concurrently. This architecture is inspired by onboard autonomous frameworks utilized in interplanetary missions. The proposed architecture is implemented within a discrete-event simulated world to evaluate its deliberative and reactive behaviors. Evaluation results suggest that the architecture supports both behaviors, consistently.

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    Kaveh Hassani & Won-Sook Lee

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  3. Intelligent Systems Department, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Inst. of Infor. & Communication Techn., Sofia, Bulgaria

    L. Doukovska

  4. Metalurgy, University of Chemical Technology and, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  6. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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Hassani, K., Lee, WS. (2015). An Intelligent Architecture for Autonomous Virtual Agents Inspired by Onboard Autonomy. In: Angelov, P., et al. Intelligent Systems'2014. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11313-5_35

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