Brooks: a layered control system for a mobile robot

What changed

A practical modular reactive control style was demonstrated.

Scientific scope

Sole-author 1986 paper; earlier memos, later behavior-based robots and general autonomy separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 1986 IEEE paper and its implemented layered architecture. Earlier mobile robots, Brooks’s related memos, later behavior-based robotics and every subsumption implementation remain separate.

Contributors

• Rodney A. Brooks · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Brooks, A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot
• Crossref record for layered mobile-robot control

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