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Summary
The primary aim of this project is to develop a simulation
of the processes involved in solving the problems faced by a robotic agent
as in the illustration below. That is how to select, based on the agent’s
knowledge and representations of the world, one object from several, grasp
the object and use it in an appropriate manner. This mundane activity in
fact requires the simultaneous solution of several deep problems at various
levels. The agent’s visual system must represent potential target objects,
the target must be selected based on task instructions or the agent’s
knowledge of the functions of the represented objects, and the hand (in
this case) must be moved to the target and shaped so as to grip it in a
manner appropriate for its use. We propose to develop a robotic simulation
model inspired by recent theories of embodied cognition, in which the
vision, action and semantic systems are linked together, in a dynamic and
mutually interactive manner, within a connectionist
architecture. Human experimental work will constrain the temporal and
dynamic properties of the system in an effort to develop a psychologically
plausible model of embodied selection for action. As much of the cognitive
mechanisms leading to the integration between action and vision for actions
such as object assembly tasks are not fully known, new empirical studies in
this project will also improve our insight of these embodied cognitive
dynamics. New experiments and the use of the embodied cognitive model will
also be used to further our understanding of language and cognition
integration e.g. by providing further predictions and insights on the
dynamics of language and action knowledge in object representation
People
Prof
Angelo Cangelosi
Prof
Rob Ellis
Prof
Martin H. Fischer
Dr
Jeremy Goslin
Dr
Davi Bugmann
Dr Fabio Ruini
Dr
Jens Apel
International collaborators
Prof. Art
Glenberg (Arizona State University, USA)
Prof. Giulio Sandini, Prof. Giorgio Metta
(Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy)
Former collaborators
Dr. Andriy Myachykov (Glasgow University)
Dr Zoran Macura
  
 
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