Combing Robotic Behaviors for Safe, Intelligent Execution

The goal of this project was to develop a framework in which different cognitive skills and behaviors can be combined to produce intelligent and safe robotic behavior. The DoD Autonomy COI has recently identified a problem in autonomy and artificial intelligence research; namely, that the majority of the AI behaviors being produced work largely independently, and are unable to be combined with other behaviors or skills without significant research and development efforts. In this project, we took steps towards addressing this problem by developing a framework in which the many successful cognitive skills and behaviors we have developed over the years can be safely combined to produce intelligent robotic behavior.