Project 1 (of 3)
Due date: March 1st
Form: paper (+/- 4 pages) (or a demo and 1 page description)
Prerequisites: Read all 3 handouts distributed so far (two by Brooks, one by Maes)
For help: contact Michael Johnson, aries@media.mit.edu
Problem definition :
Design an autonomous agent (on paper) using the behavior based
approach.
The agent can be a robot, character in a simulated world
(e.g. computer animated world),
a software agent, or a ³smart
environment²/reactive room type of system.
Describe the environment that the agent will operate in.
What are its characteristics, etc.
Next describe what the goals of the agent are, its sensors, and its list
of (parallel) behaviors.
Remember to design the agent in such a way
that several (parallel) ³feedback loops² (or S-R rules)
result in interesting behavior.
Goal of the exercise :
Give the students a better feel for the behavior-based approach to building agents.