A time-ordered architecture for integrating reflexive and deliberative behavior

Abstract

The objective of our research is to establish a universal architecture for effecting an autonomous control logic for land, space, air, and underwater platforms. Although the operational constraints of each platform are diverse, we perceive the general task to be the execution of a mission in an unstructured environment. The task requires reflexive and deliberative mechanisms that sometime trade off problems and sometime combine to solve a single problem. We propose a hierarchical time-ordered architecture for integrating these mechanisms.