Evolution of a Cognitive Architecture for Social Robots: Integrating Behaviors and Symbolic Knowledge

Autor: Vicente Matellán, Jonatan Ginés, Francisco Martín, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Lera
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 6067, p 6067 (2020)
Applied Sciences
Volume 10
Issue 17
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app10176067
Popis: This paper presents the evolution of a robotic architecture intended for controlling autonomous social robots. The first instance of this architecture was originally designed according to behavior-based principles. The building blocks of this architecture were behaviors designed as a finite state machine and organized in an ethological inspired way. However, the need of managing explicit symbolic knowledge in human&ndash
robot interaction required the integration of planning capabilities into the architecture and a symbolic representation of the environment and the internal state of the robot. A major contribution of this paper is the description of the working memory that integrates these two approaches. This working memory has been implemented as a distributed graph. Another contribution is the use of behavior trees instead of state machine for implementing the behavior-based part of the architecture. This late version of the architecture has been tested in robotic competitions (RoboCup or European Robotics League, among others), whose performance is also discussed in this paper.
Databáze: OpenAIRE