ABC2: An Architecture for Intelligent Autonomous Systems

Abstract

This paper presents an architecture for the control of autonomous systems that allows cooperation among them This paper focuses on the description of the upper layers of the model The control structure is based on a general purpose multi agent architecture based on a two levels approach One level is composed of reactive skills capable of achieving simple actions by their own The other one is an agenda used as an opportunistic planning mechanism to compound activate and coordinate the basic skills This agenda handles actions both from the internal goals of the robot or from other robots