Intelligence Without Representation

Brooks

robotics architecture situated subsumption intelligence ai

@article{brooks:aij-1991,
  title={Intelligence Without Representation},
  author={Brooks, R. A.},
  booktitle={Artificial Intelligence Journal},
  year={1991},
  volume={47}

Posits two key themes:

• AI must be situated and tested in the world to be meaningful
• Complex behaviors must be built up from smaller but complete behaviors

Discusses subsumption architecture for robot controllers

• Behaviors connected together, inhibiting and enabling each other