A survey of robotic agent architectures

Abstract

Robotic agents consist of various compositions of properties that are found in their mechatronics, behavioural and cognitive architectures. Common properties of each architecture type serve as criteria for assessing the degree of intelligence of most embodied agent models. Although embodied intelligence has long been accepted for robotic agents, the literature is short on combined evaluations that discuss all properties of all architecture types in one framework. Here we provide a review of existing taxonomies for each type of architecture and attempt to combine them all in a single taxonomy for robotic agents.