Reactivity of Subsumption Architecture
Reactivity
of the Subsumption Architecture
This is the strongest and most compelling property of the subsumption
architecture. Because there is
no internal representation of state
or reasoning about it, the reaction time of the subsumption agent is
limited only by the time it takes to sense a change in the world and
to
direct its actuators; in other words, response to stimuli is
reflexive rather
than deliberate. Because the hormonal and planning modifications
are distributed throughout the architecture, they do not adversely
effect reactivity although Brooks suggests that the hormonal system
may actually damp responses to high frequency oscillations in the
environment, important for coherence.
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