Mastersthesis,
XABSL: A Behavior Engineering System for Autonomous Agents: Diploma Thesis
Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, (2004)
Abstract
In the area of agent systems, as throughout in computer science, formal
methods are applied to specify complex systems, to ensure certain
properties of a system, or to generally simplify the development
of solutions. In traditional symbolic artificial intelligence, logic
and planning theories are usually used for modelling autonomous
agents. But these approaches turned out to be not applicable for
agent systems in highly dynamic environments. Therefore, mainly
in intelligent robotics, theories or formalisms are often not used
when programming agents to perform certain tasks. In this thesis,
the Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language (XABSL) is
introduced as a pragmatic approach to agent engineering. It does
not follow any agent theory but in return provides a powerful set
of tools for the convenient and rapid programming of agent behavior.
The system was succesfully applied by the GermanTeam in the RoboCup
Sony Four Legged League, resulting in the win of the RoboCup world
championship 2004.
