Architectures of Mind of Autonomous Agents

• Architectures for whole agents - Autonomous agents, Adaptive Behavior, the Subsumption architecture, mobile robots, pandemonium models
• Autonomy in the flow of control - the Society of Mind, decentralised minds, Action Selection, ethology

Recommended Reading

Artificial Minds, Stan Franklin, 1995. - Library 006.3.FRA, and see More information. - A good survey of architectures for autonomous agents.

The Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky, 1986. - Library 153.MIN, and see More information. - One of the only attempts ever to try and picture what an entire brain would look like.

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• AI Links
  • Models/Architectures of Mind

• Cognitive architectures
• Society of Mind

• Survey of Action Selection
  • Hierarchical models
    • Brooks' Subsumption Architecture
  • Serial (Network / Neural) models
    • Maes' Spreading Activation Networks
  • Parallel (Peer / Multiple-Mind) models
    • Selfridge's Pandemonium
    • Drives in Ethology
    • Tyrrell
    • Humphrys' W-learning
  • Societies (Parallel, but modules use other modules)
    • Minsky's Society of Mind
    • Humphrys' Society of Mind based on Reinforcement Learning