Hybrid Agents

To overcome the weaknesses described above, a combination of reactive and deliberative agents is used [3]. Here, a system is divided into two layers, one layer does high-level reasoning, the other handles the interaction with the real world. The upper level is normally a deliberate planning system while the lower level is more reactive or behavior based. The kind of agent that would be appropriate for a soccer playing agent would be a hybrid agent whose reactivity is determined by its behavior. An important feature of the hybrid agent used by us is resource awareness. Every individual agent is fully cognizant of the resources available to them and their individual decisions are bounded by that constraint.