Autonomous Agents

✍ Scribed by George A. Bekey (auth.), George A. Bekey (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 120
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

An agent is a system capable of perceiving the environment, reasoning with the percepts and then acting upon the world. Agents can be purely software systems, in which case their percepts and output `actions' are encoded binary strings. However, agents can also be realized in hardware, and then they are robots. The Artificial Intelligence community frequently views robots as embodied intelligent agents.
The First International Conference on Autonomous Agents was held in Santa Monica, California, in February 1997. This conference brought together researchers from around the world with interests in agents, whether implemented purely in software or in hardware. The conference featured such topics as intelligent software agents, agents in virtual environments, agents in the entertainment industry, and robotic agents. Papers on robotic agents were selected for this volume.
Autonomous Agents will be of interest to researchers and students in the area of artificial intelligence and robotics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Introduction....Pages 5-5
Development of an Autonomous Quadruped Robot for Robot Entertainment....Pages 7-18
Basic Visual and Motor Agents for Increasingly Complex Behavior Generation on a Mobile Robot....Pages 19-28
An Autonomous Spacecraft Agent Prototype....Pages 29-52
Map Generation by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots in Structured Unknown Environments....Pages 53-61
Grounding Mundane Inference in Perception....Pages 63-77
Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests....Pages 79-95
Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles....Pages 97-110
Learning View Graphs for Robot Navigation....Pages 111-125

✦ Subjects

Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Mechanical Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

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