REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture for Perceptive Agents

Maxwell, Bruce A., Meeden, Lisa A., Addo, Nii Saka, Dickson, Paul, Fairfield, Nathaniel, Johnson, Nikolas, Jones, Edward G., Kim, Suor, Malla, Pukar, Murphy, Matthew, Rutter, Brandon, Silk, Eli

AI Magazine 

This article describes the winning entries in the 2000 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Mobile Robot Competition. The robots, developed by Swarthmore College, all used a modular hybrid architecture designed to enable reflexive responses to perceptual input. Within this architecture, the robots integrated visual sensing, speech synthesis and recognition, the display of an animated face, navigation, and interrobot communication.