Title
A Metabolic Subsumption Architecture for Cooperative Control of the e-Puck
Abstract
Subsumption architectures are a well-known model for behaviour-based robotic control. The overall behaviour is achieved by defining a hierarchy of increasingly sophisticated behaviours. We are interested in using evolutionary algorithms to develop appropriate control architectures. We observe that the layered arrangement of behaviours in subsumption architectures are a significant obstacle to automating the development of control systems. We propose an alternative subsumption architecture inspired by the bacterial metabolism, that is more amenable to evolutionary development, where communities of simple reactive agents combine in a stochastic process to confer appropriate behaviour on the robot. We evaluate this approach by developing a traditional and a metabolic solution to a simple control problem using the e-puck educational robot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-12538-6_1
Studies in Computational Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
control system,robot control,evolutionary algorithm,educational robotics,stochastic process
Obstacle,Robot control,Evolutionary algorithm,Metabolic network,Artificial intelligence,Control system,Engineering,Robot,Subsumption architecture,Hierarchy
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
284
1860-949X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Verena Fischer130.83
Simon Hickinbotham27316.67