The Autonomous Robot Architecture (AuRA) is a hybrid deliberative/reactive robot architecture developed by American roboticist and roboethicist Ronald C. Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It was developed in mid-1980s. AuRA is one of the first Hybrid Robotic Architecture developed. Hybrid Robotic Architecture forms form combination of reactive and deliberative approaches and gets best from both the approaches.
See also Three-layer architecture Servo, subsumption, and symbolic architecture Distributed architecture for mobile navigation (DAMN) ATLANTIS architecture
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120325145948/http://math.haifa.ac.il/robotics/Projects/AuRA_Ina.pdf