Agent Programming Languages Requirements for Programming Autonomous Robots

摘要

This paper presents four requirements for BDI-based agent programming languages to facilitate the implementation of autonomous robot control systems. The first requirement is to support the integration of these languages with robotic frameworks. The second requirement is real-time reaction and response to events. The real-time reactivity problem in the BDI architecture is discussed and a distributed BDI architecture is proposed to approach this problem. The third requirement is to extend the BDI architecture with sensory management components for the management of sensory events and detecting complex events. The fourth requirement is the representation of complex plans and the coordination of the parallel execution of plans. These requirements are derived from an extensive survey of current autonomous robot programming tools and architectures and a study of a home-care application scenario for the NAO robot.