Notes and Reading - Lecture #3

Lecture #3 introduced the behaviour-based approach to AI.

Notes

Notes are available in two formats:

1 slide per page, PDF.
4 slides per page, PDF.

Reading

This material isn't really covered in the textbook (the lecture material was drwn from Chapter 2 of Nilsson's "Artificial Intelligence: A new synthesis").

The classic article on the subsumption architecture is

Brooks, R. A., "Intelligence Without Representation", Artificial Intelligence Journal (47), 1991, pp. 139-159

You should read it. For those interested in more, another relevant paper is:

Brooks, R.A., " From Earwigs to Humans", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 20, Nos. 2-4, June 1997, pp. 291-304.