They assume the end, and consider how and by which means it is attained, and if it seems easily and best produced thereby; while if it is achieved by one means only they consider how it will be achieved by this and by what means this will be achieved, till they come to the first cause, which in the order of discovery is last.
“That's something I could not allow to happen.”
Robots in fiction seem to be able to engage in complex planning tasks with little or no difficulty. For example, in the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL is capable of long-range plans and reasoning about the effects and consequences of his actions. It is indeed fortunate that fictional autonomous systems can be presented without having to specify how such devices represent and reason about their environment. Unfortunately, real autonomous systems must make explicit any internal representations and mechanisms for reasoning about them. This chapter considers some of the fundamental computational tasks that must be addressed by a mobile robot: how space should be represented, how to represent the robot itself, and how the robot can reason with respect to its representation of space. These are fundamental tasks for a mobile robot that must plan complex strategies and establish long-term plans.
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