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ProMAS 2012: Programming Multi-Agent Systems pp 54–71Cite as

An Agent-Based Cognitive Robot Architecture

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Abstract

We propose a new cognitive robot control architecture in which the cognitive layer can be programmed by means of the agent programming language Goal. The architecture exploits the support that agent-oriented programming offers for creating cognitive robotic agents, including symbolic knowledge representation, deliberation via modular, high-level action selection, and support for multiple, declarative goals. The benefits of the architecture are that it provides a flexible approach to develop cognitive robots and support for a clean and clear separation of concerns about symbolic reasoning and sub-symbolic processing. We discuss the design of our architecture and discuss the issue of translating sub-symbolic information and behavior control into symbolic representations needed at the cognitive layer. An interactive navigation task is presented as a proof of concept.

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  1. Interactive Intelligence, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Changyun Wei & Koen V. Hindriks

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  1. Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, 3508, Utrecht, TB, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, P.O.Box 476, 88040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

    Jomi F. Hübner

  3. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, NG8 1BB, Nottingham, UK

    Brian Logan

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Wei, C., Hindriks, K.V. (2013). An Agent-Based Cognitive Robot Architecture. In: Dastani, M., Hübner, J.F., Logan, B. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7837. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38700-5_4

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