As described on the Behavior-based_robotics Wikipedia page:

Behavior-based robotics (BBR) or behavioral robotics is an approach in robotics that focuses on robots that are able to exhibit complex-appearing behaviors despite little internal variable state to model its immediate environment, mostly gradually correcting its actions via sensory-motor links.

Behaviour Based Systems (BBS) came out of the Rodney Brooks and the MIT Robotics Laboratory and represents a research area distinct from AI that attempts to model the robot's environment (with computer-based ontologies, 3D modeling, etc.) or accumulate great amounts of data, or build some kind of robot world view. BBS consider that small creatures like insects don't have a complex model of the world as they hardly have a brain at all, simply some hard-wired, reactive behaviours. Likewise, a combination of behaviours wired into a robot creates an emergent form of intelligence, to some degree in a ratio corresponding to the complexity of the sensors (or the robot's "view" of the sensed environment).

See also: Behaviour Trees

Papers#

• Intelligence Without Reason, Rodney A. Brooks
• Intelligence without representation, Rodney A. Brooks
• Behavior-Based Systems, François Michaud, ed.
• A Robot that Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network, Rodney A. Brooks
• Intelligence without Robots: A Reply to Brooks, Oren Etzioni

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