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Subsumption architecture

Subsumption architecture is a reactive robotic architecture heavily associated with behavior-based robotics which was very popular in the 1980s and 90s. The term was introduced by Rodney Brooks and colleagues in 1986. Subsumption has been widely influential in autonomous robotics and elsewhere in real-time AI.

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Shakey the robotSituatednessSituated AIEmbodied agentControl system
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Layers and augmented finite-state machines

Finite-state machinesInstance variablesModule
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Subsumption architecture → reactive robotic architecture heavily associated with behavior-based robotics which was very popular in the 1980s and 90s

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