Building Brains for Rooms: Designing Distributed Software Agents

This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Brooksian subsumption controllers for robots, and they demonstrate that complex behaviors can be had via the aggregates of relatively simple interacting agents. We illustrate this principle with a distributed software agent system that controls the behavior of our laboratory’s Intelligent Room.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Michael H. Coen
• Keywords: AAAI 1997, Brooksian Subsumption Controllers, Intelligent Agents, Software Agent, Software Agent Systems