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Cognitive Architecture for Robust Adaptive Control of Robots in a Team

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The objective of this paper is to present a cognitive architecture thatutilizes three different methodologies for adaptive, robust control ofrobots behaving intelligently in a team. The robots interact within a worldof objects, and obstacles, performing tasks robustly, while improving theirperformance through learning. The adaptive control of the robots has beenachieved by a novel control system. The Tropism-based cognitive architecturefor the individual behavior of robots in a colony is demonstrated throughexperimental investigation of the robot colony. This architecture is basedon representation of the likes and dislikes of the robots. It is shown thatthe novel architecture is not only robust, but also provides the robots withintelligent adaptive behavior. This objective is achieved by utilization ofthree different techniques of neural networks, machine learning, and geneticalgorithms. Each of these methodologies are applied to the tropismarchitecture, resulting in improvements in the task performance of the robotteam, demonstrating the adaptability and robustness of the proposed controlsystem.

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Agah, A., Bekey, G.A. Cognitive Architecture for Robust Adaptive Control of Robots in a Team. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 20, 251–273 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007960328527

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