DiPRA: a layered agent architecture which integrates practical reasoning and sensorimotor schemas
Giovanni Pezzulo · Connection Science · 2009
We introduce the layered agent architecture DiPRA (Distributed Practical Reasoning Architecture), composed of an ‘intentional’ layer, which includes beliefs, plans and goals, and a ‘sensorimotor’ layer, which includes schemas for situated action. DiPRA's functioning is illustrated and evaluated in a simulated guards-and-thieves scenario. We also discuss the efficacy of the main features of DiPRA, such as the division of labour between off-line planning and on-line specification of action, the grounding of beliefs in sensorimotor interaction and anticipation, the use of bounded resources and knowledge, and the realisation of deliberation and means-ends reasoning as intertwined processes.