Capabilities

Perception

Teton employs perception as Van Lehn claims that it directly effects cognition involved with important real problems such as columnar arithmetic.

Goal Reconstruction

Teton was constructed on the premise that the human goal stack is limited and therefore overwrites itself whenever a task gets too involved or gets interrupted for long periods of time. The ability of the agent to complete a problem solving task depends on its ability to quickly and robustly reconstruct any goals that were previously destroyed or damaged.

Problem Solving

Teton was proposed as a limited model of the human cognitive process of goal reconstruction which is meant to explain the human capability called situated action. These effects lie on top of and effect cognition. The model, then is a cognitive problem solver that has the capability of goal reconstruction.

Perfect Sensing Assumed

The ability of the agent to perform columnar mathematics required the perfect identification of the plane. This would allow the agent to associate elements with one another based on horizontal and vertical proximity.

The proposed test bed requires direct perceptual input but does not venture into the analysis of robustness in the presence of perceptual errors.

Situated Action

One of the main reasons for building TETON was to learn about the primitive capabilities necessary for an agent to employ both planning and situated action.
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