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Embedding learning in behaviour-based architectures: a conceptual approach

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This paper addresses the identification of the key elements to be present in a generic, behaviour-based architecture for robot control. These elements include the definition of behaviours aiming at rough task execution and the use of learning to improve the performance of the primitive behaviour set. Experimental results, with real and simulated systems, to demonstrate cooperative behaviour between a mobile platform and a manipulator are presented.

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  1. Instituto Superior Te´cnico/Instituto de Sistemas e Robo´tica, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1096, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    João Sequeira & M. Isabel Ribeiro

  2. Joint Research Centre, European Commission, TP 270, 21020, Ispra, (VA), Italy

    Jose´ Del R. Milla´n & João G. M. Gonc¸alves

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Sequeira, J., Milla´n, J.D.R., Ribeiro, M.I. et al. Embedding learning in behaviour-based architectures: a conceptual approach. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 9, 201–207 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008832332433

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