Here are the papers/readings that we will cover in class:
P.H. Mowforth and P. Grant. "From Task Level Planning To Analogical Navigation." The Autonomous Mobile Robots and Its Applications -- IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '89), pages 142--146, 1989.
You can access an electronic copy of this paper through the OU library under the databases (choose "IEEE Xplore").
T.J. Pennings. "Do Dogs Know Calculus?" The College Mathematics Journal, 34 (3): 178--182, 2003.
You can access an electronic copy of this paper through the OU library under the databases (choose "JSTOR").
R.A. Brooks. "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot." MIT AI Lab Memo No. 864, September 1985.
You can access an electronic copy of this paper from Prof. Brooks' website, either in PDF format or compressed PostScript.
R.A. Brooks. "Planning is Just a Way of Avoiding Figuring Out What To Do Next." MIT AI Lab Working Paper No. 303, September 1987.
You can access an electronic copy of this paper from MIT at http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41202/AI_WP_303.pdf?sequence=4. (Thanks to Ricardo Santos for being the first student to find this URL and bring it to my attention.)
S. Thrun. "To Know or Not to Know: On the Utility of Models in Mobile Robotics." AI Magazine, 18 (1): 47--54, 1997.
You can access an electronic copy of this paper from AAAI Press at http://aaaipress.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewFile/1273/1174.
Reid G. Simmons, Richard Goodwin, Karen Zita Haigh, Sven Koenig, Joseph O'Sullivan, Manuela M. Veloso. "Xavier: Experience with a Layered Robot Architecture." SIGART Bulletin, pages 22--33, Fall 1997.
A draft version of this paper is available from the group's website.
James S. Albus. "A Reference Model Architecture for Intelligent Systems Design."
Not currently available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Real-Time Control Systems Library -- Software and Documentation website.
You can access an electronic copy of this paper from CiteSeer at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.17.1766.