Distributed perceptual systems are endowed with different kind of sensors, from which information pouts to suitable modules to perform useful elaborations for decisions mating. In this paper a new distributed architecture, named ''Distributed Architecture for Intelligent SYstem'' (DAISY), is proposed. It is based on the concept of co-operating behavioral agents supervised by a ''Central Engagement Module''. This module integrates the processing of data coming from the behavioral agents with a symbolic level of representation, by the introduction of a ''conceptual space'' intermediate analogue representation. The DAISY project is under development; experiments on navigation and exploration for an autonomous robot are done to evaluate its performance.