Pro-active agents with recurrent neural controllers
Guido de Croon · 2004
Embodied cognitive science is regarded as a bottom-up approach within artificial intelligence. It envisages the realisation and study of increasingly complex artificial agents. As a consequence, the research emphasised reactive agents, i.e., agents that always respond in the same way to the same sensory inputs. To reach higher agent capabilities, the research focus currently shifts from reactive to pro-active agents. The actions of pro-active agents do not only depend on the inputs, but also on the "internal state". The internal state of an agent is defined as the subset of variables that co-determine the future input-output mapping of the agent. Typically,