The biology and technology of intelligent autonomous agents

Autonomous artificial intelligent agents

This paper reviews the current state of the art in the research concerning the development of autonomous artificial intelligent agents. First, the meaning of specific terms, like agency, automaticity, autonomy, embodiment, situatedness, and intelligence, are discussed in the context of this domain. The motivations for conducting research in this area are then exposed. We focus, in particular, o...

Socially intelligent reasoning for autonomous agents

Socially intelligent agents are autonomous problem solvers that have to achieve their objectives by interacting with other similarly autonomous entities. A major concern, therefore, is with the design of the decision-making mechanism that such agents employ in order to determine which actions to take to achieve their goals. An attractive and much sought after property of this mechanism is that ...

When are robots intelligent autonomous agents?

The paper explores a biologically inspired de nition of intelligent autonomous agents Intelligence is related to whether be havior of a system contributes to its self maintenance Behavior be comesmore intelligent or copes with more ecological pressures when it is capable to create and use representations The notion of repre sentation should not be restricted to formal expressions with a truth t...

Modeling the Behaviour of Interacting Autonomous Intelligent Agents

Initial research is focused on building and comparing online/off-line navigation behaviours in autonomous situated agents. Three soft controllers will be evaluated using: Fuzzy reactive subsumption architecture. Deliberative evolutionary module using Genetic Algorithms (Collins et al. 1998a). Reinforcement learning using temporal difference (TD) methods (Millan 1996) i.e. Sarsa-learning. Amongs...

Technology Assessment of Autonomous Intelligent Bipedal and Other Legged Robots