mobile robot Allen

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Mobile robot Allen is an early autonomous robot that served as a platform for testing and demonstrating Rodney Brooks’ subsumption architecture for reactive robot control.

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instanceOf autonomous robot
mobile robot
research robot platform
associatedWithPublication Rodney Brooks’ papers on subsumption architecture
basedOnParadigm behavior-based robotics
controlSystemProperty higher layers subsume lower layers
no central world model
parallel behavior layers
controlSystemType layered control system
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
demonstratedConcept emergent behavior from simple layers
intelligence without representation
developedAt MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory NERFINISHED
Massachusetts Institute of Technology NERFINISHED
developedBy Rodney Brooks NERFINISHED
era 1980s
fieldOfUse artificial intelligence research
robotics research
hasActuatorType electric motors
hasArchitecture subsumption architecture NERFINISHED
hasCapability autonomous navigation
obstacle avoidance
sensor-based behavior
hasControlType reactive control
hasDesignGoal fast reactive response
robust real-world behavior
hasFullName mobile robot Allen NERFINISHED
hasLocomotion wheeled locomotion
hasNameOrigin named Allen in MIT AI Lab context
hasSensorType proximity sensors
sonar sensors
influenced behavior-based robot design
later subsumption-based mobile robots
influencedBy Rodney Brooks’ behavior-based AI theories
movementEnvironment indoor environments
notableFor being an early autonomous mobile robot
being an early implementation of subsumption architecture
precededBy Shakey the robot NERFINISHED
robotType experimental platform
usedFor demonstrating subsumption architecture
testing subsumption architecture

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subsumption architecture implementedIn mobile robot Allen