[ros-users] Looking for a behavior handling executive

[Alex Brown]

Hi all,

    We are transitioning our Windows based robot project (leafproject.org) over to ROS.  (Thank you, Willow Garage :- )  As hobbyists, we do not want to be limited to single purpose designs, but want robots that can perform many complex behaviors selected either by user voice commands or autonomously generated behaviors from an artificial personality.  

    We currently use a table driven state machine to initialize and execute each behavior.  This can involve turning sensors and analysis programs on or off and sequentially (with branching) calling many lower level behaviors to accomplish the higher level objectives.  Each higher level behavior has its table in a text file.  The current implementation has some limitations that I would like to address in rewriting the code for ROS.

    I suspect that some other projects have similar capabilities.  I would like to look at their implementations but searching all the repositories or the multi-thousand item package list is too daunting.  I would appreciate it if someone would point me at some existing packages that perform this type of function.

Thanks,
Alex
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