Notes and Reading - Lecture #2

Lecture #2 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 drawn 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

For a full understanding of this material you should read this paper. For those more interested, a recent paper is:

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