Intelligent control describes the discipline where control methods are developed that attempt to emulate important characteristics of human intelligence. These characteristics include adaptation and learning, planning under large uncertainty and coping with large amounts of data. Today, the area of intelligent control tends to encompass everything that is not characterized as conventional contr...

In my 1985 paper, “A Blackboard Architecture for Control” [7], I claimed that the control problem is fundamental to all cognitive processes and intelligent systems. At each point in time, many actions may be logically possible, given the current state of the task environment. An intelligent agent must choose among them, either implicitly or explicitly. For a given task, the agent’s solution to ...

Understanding and implementing the control mechanisms that animals use to robustly negotiate a variety of terrains at high speed remains an unsolved problem. Previous research has resulted in control of quadruped running over a range of low speeds or narrowly around a single high speed. Control over a range of both low and high speeds is difficult because a quadruped system is significantly mor...