RHINO was the University of Bonn's entry in the 1994 AAAI Robot Compet
ition and Exhibition. RHINO is a mobile robot designed for indoor navi
gation and manipulation tasks. The general scientific god of the RHINO
project is the development and the analysis of autonomous and complex
learning systems. This article briefly describes the major components
of the RHINO control software as they were exhibited at the competiti
on. It also sketches the basic philosophy of the RHINO architecture an
d discusses some of the lessons that we learned during the competition
.