A cognitive robot with reconfigurable mind for studying theories of ambiguity resolution

Author

Brown, Frank M. ; Agah, Arvin ; Gauch, John M. ; Schreiber, Tom ; Spee, Shari R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

6

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

994

Abstract

Presents the conceptual design of a cognitive robot for investigating issues in ambiguity resolution. The robot will be intelligent, mobile, and anthropomorphic. It is envisioned that the robot will provide an alternative for studying cognition, providing a useful methodology complementing more traditional experimental methods. The ambiguity resolution will be studied in spoken natural language understanding, context driven active robot vision, memory system, and robot reasoning and actuation. Beyond the immediate goal of this research of creating and testing multi-modal theories of ambiguity resolution this project is concerned with validating the methodological idea of using such robots as basic experimental tools for research in the cognitive sciences and for helping to integrate together the research of different cognitive sciences

Keywords

active vision; cognitive systems; mobile robots; natural languages; robot vision; actuation; ambiguity resolution; anthropomorphic robot; cognitive robot; context driven active robot vision; memory system; multi-modal theories; reconfigurable mind; robot reasoning; spoken natural language understanding; Auditory system; Cognitive robotics; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Machine vision; Natural languages; Psychology; Robot vision systems; Speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.816688

Filename

816688