TY - JOUR
T1 - Infants and iCubs
T2 - Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition
AU - Law, James
AU - Lee, Mark
AU - Hülse, Martin
AU - Shaw, Patricia
N1 - James Law, Mark Lee, Martin Huelse, Patricia Shaw. Infants and iCubs: Applying Developmental Psychology to Robot Shaping, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 7, Pages 272-274, 2011.
PY - 2011/12/22
Y1 - 2011/12/22
N2 - Achieving sentient robots will not only require understanding of neuro-models that generate behaviour from structure, but will also need research into the role of development, that is how behaviour determines structure. We emphasise infant sensory-motor development and identify an explicit framework that can guide the design of similar developmental processes in robotics. We show how human development sequences can be mapped on to robotic platforms and how constraints on perception and action can be utilised so that staged behaviour and learning may take place. The growth of increasing competence can be managed by this method of unsupervised shaping by constraints.
AB - Achieving sentient robots will not only require understanding of neuro-models that generate behaviour from structure, but will also need research into the role of development, that is how behaviour determines structure. We emphasise infant sensory-motor development and identify an explicit framework that can guide the design of similar developmental processes in robotics. We show how human development sequences can be mapped on to robotic platforms and how constraints on perception and action can be utilised so that staged behaviour and learning may take place. The growth of increasing competence can be managed by this method of unsupervised shaping by constraints.
KW - Autonomous robots
KW - Developmental learning
KW - Unsupervised shaping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863063557&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.034
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.034
M3 - Article
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 7
SP - 272
EP - 274
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
Y2 - 4 May 2011 through 6 May 2011
ER -