Agents

Syed Ali Raza

Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
GC University Lahore

Agent
Perception
Autonomous Agent
Environment Properties
fully observable vs. partially observable
deterministic vs. non-deterministic
episodic vs. sequential
static vs. dynamic
single vs. multiple agents

Agents

 PEAS: Performance measure, Environment, Actuators, Sensors

Must first specify the setting for intelligent agent design
Consider, e.g., the task of designing an automated taxi driver:
Performance measure
Actuators
Sensors

Environment

PEAS

Agent: Medical diagnosis system

Performance measure: Healthy patient, minimize costs, lawsuits
Environment: Patient, hospital, staff
Actuators: Screen display (questions, tests, diagnoses, treatments,
referrals)

Sensors: Keyboard (entry of symptoms, findings, patient's answers)

PEAS

Agent: Part-picking robot

Performance measure: Percentage of parts in correct bins
Environment: Conveyor belt with parts, bins
Actuators: Jointed arm and hand
Sensors: Camera, joint angle sensors

PEAS

Agent: Interactive English tutor

Performance measure:
Environment:
Actuators:
Sensors:

PEAS

Four basic types in order of increasing generality:

Simple reflex agents
Model-based reflex agents
Goal-based agents
Utility-based agents
Learning Agents

Agent Types

Sensors
What the world is like now

Condition-action rules
What should I do now

Agent Actuators
Environment

Simple Reflex Agent

Sensors
State

What the world is like now

How the world evolves

What my actions do
Condition-action rules

What should I do now

Agent Actuators
Environment

Model-based Agents

Sensors

State
How the world evolves

What the world is like now

What happens if I do an action

What my actions do
Goals
What should I do now

Agent Actuators
Environment

Goal-based Agents

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Sensors
State
How the world evolves
What my actions do

What the world is like now

What happens if I do an action
How happy will I be then

Utility
What should I do now

Agent Actuators
Environment

Utility Agent

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Performance
Standard

Sensors

Critic

State

Learning
Element

How the world evolves

What my actions do

What the world is like now

What happens if I do an action
How happy will I be then

Utility
What should I do now

Problem
Generator

Actuators

Agent

Environment

Learning Agent

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Motivational Agents