Generality of Subsumption Architecture

Generality of the Subsumption Architecture

The subsumption architecture has limited generality over a variety of task domains for particular agents although more fully general for agents instantiated with different behaviors. Brooks indicates that the hormonal activation system allows a reasonable integration of different low level behaviors (such as mobility versus survival). Mataric also adds that since the individual agents are fine-tuned for the environments in which they operate, the generality of any agent is a function of its intended environment.


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