Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Subsumption architecture is an AI concept originating from behavioral robotics. It was invented by Rodney Brooks in the late 1980s. A way of decomposing one complex behaviour into many "simple" layers of increasing more abstract behaviours. Each layer can overrule (subsume) the decision of the overlaying layer, e.g. the lowest obstacle-avoidance layer could choose to overrule the decision to move forward by the eat-food layer. See also emergent behavior. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.