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P.E.A.S. is an acronym in artificial intelligence that stands for Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors.

Contents 1 Performance 2 Environment 2.1 Accessible vs inaccessible 2.2 Deterministic vs non-deterministic 2.3 Episodic vs non-episodic 2.4 Statics vs dynamic 2.5 Discrete vs continuous 3 Actuators 4 Sensors

Performance is a function that measures the quality of the actions the agent did.

The environment in which the agent operates. They are the described with the following main properties:

If an agent's sensory appparatus gives it access to the complete state of the environment, then we say that the environment is accessible to that agent. An environment is effectively accessible if the sensors detect all aspects that are relevant to the choice of action. An accessible environment is convenient because the agent need not maintain any internal state to keep track of the world.

If the next state of the environment is completely determined by the current state of the actions selected by the agents, then we say the environment is deterministic. In principle, an agent need not worry about uncertainty in an accessible, deterministic environment.

In an episodic environment, the agent's experience is divided into "episodes". Each episode consists of the agent perceiving and then acting. The quality of its action depends just on the episode itself, because subsequent episodes do not depend on what actions occur in previous episodes. Episodic environments are much simpler because the agent does not need to think ahead.

If the environemnt can change while an agent is deliberating, then we say the environment is dynamic for that agent; otherwise it is static. Static environments are easy to deal with because the agent need not keep looking at the world while it is deciding on an action, nor need it worry about the passage of time. If the environment does not change with the passage of time but the agent's performance score does, then we say the environment is semidynamic.

If there are a limited number of distinct, clearly defined percepts and actions we say that the environment is discrete. Chess is discrete - there are a fixed number of possible moves on each turn. Taxi driving is continuous - the speed and location of the taxi and the other vehicles sweep through a range of continuous values.

Actuators are the set of devices that the agent can use to perform actions. For a computer, it can be a printer or a screen. For a mechanical robot, it can be an engine.

Sensors allow the agent to collect the perceipts sequence that will be use for deliberating the next action to do.