D. Bruemmer, R. Dickson, J. Dilatush, D. Lewis, H. Mateyak, M. Mirarchi, M. Morton, J. Tracy, A. Vorobiev, L. Meeden
We undertook this project as an opportunity to explore design ideals of the embodied approach. At our disposal was a Pioneer robot and its Saphira software (ActivMedia 1996). Similar to subsumption architecture (Brooks 1986), the Saphira software tackles the dilemma of how to implement layered control design within a system which is inherently centralized. Brooks saw each layer as a simple and almost independent computational entity and, likewise, Saphira allows us to create a hierarchy of behaviors that each have the capacity to function simultaneously and yet asynchronously. Just as Brooks proposed a means by which one level can subsume a lower level by inhibiting its output, so behaviors can each be assigned a priority.
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