Redwood Neuroscience
Institute
Title: "Goal-Directed and Reactive Behavior
Circuitry Implemented by
Teleo-Reactive
Programs"
Nils
J. Nilsson
Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Robotics Laboratory
Department of Computer
Science
Abstract:
A teleo-reactive
(T-R) program is a mid-level agent control program that robustly directs an
agent toward a goal in a manner that continuously takes into account the
agent's changing perceptions of a dynamic environment. My work on T-R programs was partially
inspired by work described in a 1960 book by the neurophysiologist J. A.
Deutsch. I will give a brief overview of T-R programs and show how they can be
implemented by neural-like circuitry.
The operation of T-R programs will be illustrated by some examples, one
of which involves robotic ‘soccer’ players.