In this chapter we review some of the recent and more significant contributions to behaviour-based robotics. In doing so, we attempt to identify common characteristics of the various implementations and examine the relationship between potentially conflicting approaches. While most workers have concentrated on the mobile robot domain, our own interest is in exploiting the potential benefits of the behaviour-based approach in robotic handling and assembly applications in appropriate industrial sectors.

Inspec keywords: materials handling; mobile robots; robotic assembly

Other keywords: robotic handling application; industrial sector; robotic assembly application; mobile robot; robot behaviour characteristic; behaviour-based robotics

Subjects: Control applications in assembling