Reactive Systems Lecture Notes

Reactive Systems

CS541 Lecture, October 2, 2000

Yolanda Gil (gil@isi.edu)
Topics

Embedded systems

planning versus reactive systems
application areas
learning

Some approaches

Blackboard architectures [Hayes-Roth 85]
Universal plans [Schoppers 87]
Situated action [Winograd and Flores 86&95]
Layered control, subsumption architecture [Brooks 86]
Reactive Action Packages (RAP) [Firby 87]
Task Control Architecture (TCA) [Simmons 94]

Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) [Georgeff, Lansky, Ingrand 87]

Architecture, Interpreter
Knowledge representation, goal expressions, Knowledge Areas
CYPRESS [Wilkins and Myers 95]

References
Required Readings

Michael Georgeff and Amy Lansky. "Reactive Reasoning and Planning". Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), 1987.

Additional Readings
All the references above. For more recent work on PRS:

D. E. Wilkins and K. L. Myers. "A Common Knowledge Representation for Plan Generation and Reactive Execution". Journal of Logic and Computation, 1995.