REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture For Perceptive Agents
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2001
Published In
AI Magazine
Abstract
This article describes the winning entries in the 2000 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Mobile Robot Competition. The robots, developed by Swarthmore College, all used a modular hybrid architecture designed to enable reflexive responses to perceptual input. Within this architecture, the robots integrated visual sensing, speech synthesis and recognition, the display of an animated face, navigation, and interrobot communication. In the Hors d'Oeuvres, Anyone? event, a team of robots entertained the crowd while they interactively served cookies; and in the Urban Search-and-Rescue event, a single robot autonomously explored a section of the test area, identified interesting features, built an annotated map, and exited the test area within the allotted time.
Recommended Citation
Bruce A. Maxwell , '91; Lisa A. Meeden; Nii S. Addo , '02; Paul E. Dickson , '00; Nathaniel J. S. Fairfield , '01; Nikolas A. Johnson , '01; Edward G. Jones , '01; Suor Kim , '02; Pukar Malla , '02; Matthew N. Murphy Garmur , '91; Brandon L. Rutter-Daywater , '00; and Eli M. Silk , '01.
(2001).
"REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture For Perceptive Agents".
AI Magazine.
Volume 22,
Issue 1.
53-66.
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v22i1.1543
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-comp-sci/7