Agents in Artificial Intelligence
Agents in Artificial Intelligence : An agent is anything that can perceive its environment through sensors and acts upon that environment through effectors. A human agent has sensory organs such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin parallel to the sensors, and other organs such as hands, legs, mouth, for effectors. A robotic agent replaces cameras and infrared range finders for the sensors, and various motors and actuators for effectors. A software agent has encoded bit strings as its programs and actions. Agent Terminology : • Performance Measure of Agent − It is the criteria, which determines how successful an agent is. • Behavior of Agent − It is the action that agent performs after any given sequence of percepts. • Percept− It is agent’s perceptual inputs at a given instance. • Percept Sequence − It is the history of all that an agent has perceived till date. • Agent Function − It is a map ...
