BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND TRAINING - A METHODOLOGY FOR BEHAVIOR ENGINEERING

We propose Behavior Engineering as a new technological area whose aim is to provide methodologies and tools for developing autonomous robots . Building robots is a very complex engineering enterprise that requir es the exact definition and scheduling of the activities which a desig ner, or a team of designers, should follow. Behavior Engineering is, w ithin the autonomous robotics realm, the equivalent of more establishe d disciplines like Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. In this article we first give a detailed presentation of a Behavior Engin eering methodology, which we call Behavior Analysis and Training (BAT) , where we stress the role of learning and training. Then we illustrat e the application of the BAT methodology to three cases involving diff erent robots: two mobile robots and a manipulator. Results show the fe asibility of the proposed approach.