REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture for Perceptive Agents

Authors

  • Bruce A. Maxwell
  • Lisa A. Meeden
  • Nii Saka Addo
  • Paul Dickson
  • Nathaniel Fairfield
  • Nikolas Johnson
  • Edward G. Jones
  • Suor Kim
  • Pukar Malla
  • Matthew Murphy
  • Brandon Rutter
  • Eli Silk

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v22i1.1543

Abstract

This article describes the winning entries in the 2000 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Mobile Robot Competition. The robots, developed by Swarthmore College, all used a modular hybrid architecture designed to enable reflexive responses to perceptual input. Within this architecture, the robots integrated visual sensing, speech synthesis and recognition, the display of an animated face, navigation, and interrobot communication. In the Hors d'Oeuvres, Anyone? event, a team of robots entertained the crowd while they interactively served cookies; and in the Urban Search-and-Rescue event, a single robot autonomously explored a section of the test area, identified interesting features, built an annotated map, and exited the test area within the allotted time.

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Published

2001-03-15

How to Cite

Maxwell, B. A., Meeden, L. A., Addo, N. S., Dickson, P., Fairfield, N., Johnson, N., Jones, E. G., Kim, S., Malla, P., Murphy, M., Rutter, B., & Silk, E. (2001). REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture for Perceptive Agents. AI Magazine, 22(1), 53. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v22i1.1543

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