Behavior-based robotics, its scope and its prospects

The paper gives an introduction to behavior-based robotics and explains its prospects for industry. First, the roots of behavior-based robotics in the scientific fields of artificial life and behavior-oriented artificial intelligence are presented. Based on this, the important conceptual aspects of behavior-based robotics are explained. The concepts are further motivated and illustrated with experiments in an ecosystem-like setting, where mobile robots interact in autonomous re-charging and working tasks. In addition to basic research issues, more application oriented work and industrial prospects are presented