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In this paper, we investigate simple attentional mechanisms suitable for sensing rate regulation and action coordination in the presence of mutually dependent behaviors. We present our architecture along with a case study where a real robotic system is to manage and harmonize conflicting tasks. This research focuses on attentional mechanisms for regulating the frequencies of sensor readings and action activations in a behavior-based robotic system. Such mechanisms are to direct sensors toward the most salient sources of information and filter the available sensory data to prevent unnecessary information processing.
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Burattini, E., Rossi, S., Finzi, A., Staffa, M. (2010). Attentional Modulation of Mutually Dependent Behaviors. In: Doncieux, S., Girard, B., Guillot, A., Hallam, J., Meyer, JA., Mouret, JB. (eds) From Animals to Animats 11. SAB 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_27
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