Rodney Brooks is an Australian roboticist
, author and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularising the actionist approach to robotics.
Instead of computation as the ultimate conceptual metaphor that helped artificial intelligence become a separate discipline in the scientific community, he proposed that action or behaviour are more appropriate to be used in robotics. This is also called Behaviour-Based Systems or Behaviour-Based Robotics.
In the late 1980s, Brooks and his team introduced Allen, a robot using Subsumption Architecture, a term introduced by Brooks and his colleagues in 1986.
References#
Among Brooks' many publications, his early papers describing what was at that time an entirely different approach to a robot operating system are very interesting.
- A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot,
Rodney A. Brooks, A.I. Memo 864, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, September 1985.
- A Robot That Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network (PDF)
Rodney A. Brooks, A.I. Memo 1091, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, February 1989 - The Behavior Language; User's Guide (PDF)
Rodney A. Brooks, A. I. Memo 1227, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, April 1990 - Intelligence Without Reason (PDF)
Rodney Brooks, A.I. Memo No. 1293, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, April 1991 - Integrated Systems Based on Behaviors
Rodney A. Brooks, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
See References page, Rodney Brooks' Publications page, or the References section on his Wikipedia page.
Links#
- Rodney Brooks home page
- RodneyBrooks.com, Robots, AI, and other stuff
- Rodney Brooks blog
- Interesting Docs, literally, his list of interesting documents and media
- Rodney Brooks on Wikipedia