My understanding is that, while there are still people in the world who speak with reverence of Brooks’s subsumption architecture, it’s not used much in commercial systems on account of being nearly impossible to program.
I once asked one of the robotics guys at IDSIA about subsumption architecture (he ran the German team that won the robo-soccer world cup a few years back) and his reply was that people like it because it works really well and is the simplist way to program many things. At the time, all of the top teams used it as far as he knew.
(p.s. don’t expect follow up replies on this topic from me as I’m current in the middle of nowhere using semi-functional dial-up...)
My understanding is that, while there are still people in the world who speak with reverence of Brooks’s subsumption architecture, it’s not used much in commercial systems on account of being nearly impossible to program.
I once asked one of the robotics guys at IDSIA about subsumption architecture (he ran the German team that won the robo-soccer world cup a few years back) and his reply was that people like it because it works really well and is the simplist way to program many things. At the time, all of the top teams used it as far as he knew.
(p.s. don’t expect follow up replies on this topic from me as I’m current in the middle of nowhere using semi-functional dial-up...)