Building for the Future: Architectures for the Next Generation of Intelligent Robots

Abstract

In this article I explore two ideas. The first is that the idea of architectures for intelligent systems is ripe for exploitation given the current state of component technologies and available software. The second idea is that in order to encourage progress in architecture research, we must concentrate on research methodologies that prevent us from continually reinventing and reimplementing existing work. The two ideas I propose for this are building software toolkits that provide useful architectures for the way researchers currently develop systems, and focusing on architectural design patterns, rather than whole architectures. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.