Project background
Robot behavior logic tends to accumulate as a tangle of ad-hoc state machines. The client wanted a structured navigation logic engine that separated policy from mechanism and made behavior easier to review.
Challenge
Capturing complex real-world behaviors — resume-after-interrupt, operator overrides, task reprioritization — cleanly, and making the resulting logic inspectable for safety review.
Approach & solution
We standardized on behavior trees for task orchestration, backed by a small set of well-tested action primitives. Each tree is versioned, reviewable, and independently testable. Runtime introspection shows the live tree state, making debugging dramatically easier.
Results & benefits
New behaviors can be added or modified without destabilizing existing ones. Safety reviews focus on the tree structure rather than the implementation, which has shortened review cycles noticeably.
