Patent Document ID: 8185483
Application ID: 10562008
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An automatic method for decision-making by a virtual or physical agent according to external variables coming from an environment described by a numerical model stored in memory means of the agent or by physical sensors connected to said agent, variables internal to the agent described by numerical parameters stored in the memory means of the agent, and processing means of the agent called decision-making means controlling actuators of said agent, characterised in that said decision-making means determines the parameters of at least one action of said agent, according to at least some of the internal or external variables, the operation of determining the parameters of an action being carried out by subprocessing means, called interest centre, which performs several decision subprocesses, each subprocess consisting in calling a processing block which performs a function of at least some of said external and internal variables, and each actuator dealing with a limited part of the general decision problems, the parameters determined by each of said subprocesses being processed in order to construct the set of action parameters controlling said agent, the automatic method further comprising interrupting said operation of determining parameters, by means of interrupting means, the interrupting step consisting of controlling the action of the agent with the parameters determined using the subprocesses processed before the interruption, activation of the interruption means being further controlled according to the state of a processing counter decremented by the cost of each processing block used.