The Distributed architecture for mobile navigation (DAMN) is a reactive robot architecture developed by Julio K. Rosenblatt at Carnegie Mellon University

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. DAMN consists of a collection of independently operating behaviors such as "go-to-goal" and "avoid obstacle", each holding a vote, weighted according to some mode manager. The votes are then counted by an arbiter, and the behavior with the most votes is chosen as the command to the vehicle controller. In DAMN, the decision-making process is distributed and asynchronous, without the need for an hierarchical structure.

See also

• Three-layer architecture
  Three-layer architecture
  The Three-Layer Architecture is a hybrid reactive/deliberative robot architecture developed by R. James Firby that consists of three layers: a reactive feedback control mechanism, a reactive plan execution mechanism, and a mechanism for performing time-consuming deliberative computations.- See also...
  
  
• Servo, subsumption, and symbolic (SSS) architecture
• ATLANTIS architecture
  ATLANTIS architecture
  The A Three-Layer Architecture for Navigating Through Intricate Situations is a hybrid reactive/deliberative robot architecture developed by Erann Gat at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.- See also :* Three-layer architecture...
  
  
• Autonomous robot architecture (AuRA)
  Autonomous robot architecture (AuRA)
  The Autonomous Robot Architecture is the a hybrid deliberative/reactive robot architecture developed by Ronald C. Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It was developed in mid 1980's. AuRA is one of the first Hybrid Robotic Architecture developed...