Notes and Reading - Lecture #3

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

Notes are available in two formats:

The textbook does not cover this material.

The classic article on the subsumption architecture is

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

This is well worth reading. 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.