ResearchIndex Home L. Steels. Autonomous systems are independent and exercise self control. To do this, it is argued, they must be motivated.
Autonomous agents possess goals which are generated within rather than adopted from other agents.
Different approaches to achieve this are discussed in detail in the next section. Approaches to the synthesis of self learning and evolutionary adaptation in autonomous agents will be discussed in section 4.2. Different types of autonomous agents, and their relevance for behavior oriented AI, are discussed in section 3.3. Roughly, however, the spectrum can be reduced to two notions, here referred to as operational and behavioral autonomy. Both notions agree in the idea that automaticity is a necessary element of any kind of autonomy.