Inproceedings,
Designing Agent Behavior with the Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language XABSL
RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, 3020, Springer, (2004)
Abstract
Specific behavior description languages prove to be suitable replacements
to native programming language like C++ when the number and complexity
of behavior patterns of an agent increases. The XML based Extensible
Agent Behavior Specification Language (XABSL) also simplifies the
process of specifying complex behaviors and supports the design
of both very reactive and long term oriented behaviors. XABSL uses
hierarchies of behavior modules called options that contain state
machines for decision making. In this paper we introduce the architecture
behind XABSL, the formalization of that architecture in XML and
the software library XabslEngine that runs the formalized behavior
on an agent platform. The GermanTeam employed XABSL in the RoboCup
Sony Four Legged League competitions in Fukuoka.
