TY - GEN
T1 - Representations of body schemas for infant robot development
AU - Shaw, Patricia
AU - Law, James
AU - Lee, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has received funds from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), grant agreement No. EP/M013510/1, project "Developmental algorithms for robotics; Understanding the world of objects, interactions and tools".
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/12/2
Y1 - 2015/12/2
N2 - Psychological studies have often suggested that internal models of the body and its structure are used to process sensory inputs such as proprioception from muscles and joints. Within robotics, there is often a need to have an internal representation of the body, integrating the multi-modal and multi-dimensional spaces in which it operates. Here we propose a body model in the form of a series of distributed spatial maps, that have not been purpose designed but have emerged through our experiments on developmental stages using a minimalist content-neutral approach. The result is an integrated series of 2D maps storing correlations and contingencies across modalities, which has some resonances with the structures used in the brain for sensorimotor coordination.
AB - Psychological studies have often suggested that internal models of the body and its structure are used to process sensory inputs such as proprioception from muscles and joints. Within robotics, there is often a need to have an internal representation of the body, integrating the multi-modal and multi-dimensional spaces in which it operates. Here we propose a body model in the form of a series of distributed spatial maps, that have not been purpose designed but have emerged through our experiments on developmental stages using a minimalist content-neutral approach. The result is an integrated series of 2D maps storing correlations and contingencies across modalities, which has some resonances with the structures used in the brain for sensorimotor coordination.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84962144659
U2 - 10.1109/DEVLRN.2015.7346128
DO - 10.1109/DEVLRN.2015.7346128
M3 - Conference Proceeding (ISBN)
SN - 978-1-4673-9319-5
T3 - 5th Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2015
SP - 123
EP - 128
BT - 5th Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CY - Providence, RI USA
T2 - IEEE ICDL - EPIROB 2015, 5th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics
Y2 - 13 August 2015 through 16 August 2015
ER -