ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on control paradigms and architectures and used in robots. The simplest robot is at least a sensor actuator pairing. More sensors and actuators enhance a robot's performance and add to its versatility. Stimulus Response (SR) diagram is a way to pictorially represent behaviour as a generated response to given stimuli(S) leading to a response(R). The robot is fitted with a light sensor and it tracks a line marked in a certain colour usually black or white. The intelligence of the robot arises due to its runtime interactions with the environment. The unison of emotions with action has been a cornerstone paradigm in robotics since Braitenberg's vehicles. Biological science has always proved to be an opulent source of motivation for development of AI and robotics. Agent-based robotics is seen as the pinnacle of cutting edge technology, while in contrast philosophy is perceived as the domain of the proverbial armchair, greying professors and old books.
