A theory for mentally developing robots

Author

Weng, Juyang

Author_Institution

Embodied Intelligence Lab., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

140

Abstract

This paper introduces a theory about mentally developing robots. The limitation of the traditional agent model is raised and a new SASE agent is proposed, based on our SAIL developmental robot. We formulate the manual development paradigm and autonomous development paradigm. The performance of a developmental robot is then formulated as reaching the norm of a human age group. The framework of autonomously generating brain representation is investigated in mathematical terms. Some techniques of such a representation are provided based on the author´s SAIL-2 developmental algorithm (1996). We establish the conceptual limitation of symbolic representation and from the limitation we propose that no developmental robot can use a symbolic representation. Finally, the completeness of developmental robot is investigated conditioned on five factors.

Keywords

adaptive control; intelligent control; learning (artificial intelligence); robots; SAIL developmental robot; SASE agent; autonomous development paradigm; autonomously generating brain representation; manual development paradigm; mentally developing robots; symbolic representation; Artificial intelligence; Cognitive robotics; Computer science; Humans; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Laboratories; Machine learning; Machinery; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Development and Learning, 2002. Proceedings. The 2nd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1459-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEVLRN.2002.1011821

Filename

1011821