Autonomy control software

For a number of years, researchers in AI and robotics have been sharing organization principles for software development called "architectures", (Arkin, 1998; Hexmoor, Kortenkamp, Horswill, 1997; Kortenkamp, Bonasso, Murphy, 1998). Most recently, there has been an interest in extending the software architectures originally designed for robotic applications to accommodate autonomous operation beyond robotics (Pell, Dorais, Plaunt, Washington, 1998). These architectures attempt to state principles for organizing software for intelligent systems that exhibit cognitive functionalities such as natural language understanding, planning, and learning as well as organism-like functionalities to cope in the world such as reflexive and reactive behaviors.