Sense Plan Act

Sense-Plan-Act was the predominate robot control methodology through 1985.

  1. Sense - gather information using the sensors
  2. Plan - create a world model using all the information, and plan the next move
  3. Act

SPA is used in iterations: After the acting phase, the sensing phase, and the entire cycle, is repeated.


Famous quotes containing the words sense, plan and/or act:

    “We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Lord wrote it all down on the little slate
    Of the baby tortoise.
    Outward and visible indication of the plan within,
    The complex, manifold involvedness of an individual creature”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “People start parades—politicians just get out in front and act like they’re leading.”
    —Dana Gillman Rinehart (b. 1946)