Towards an Integrated Robot with Multiple Cognitive Functions

We present integration mechanisms for combining heterogeneous components in a situated information processing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a human and display some understanding of its surroundings. These mechanisms include an architectural schema that encourages parallel and incremental information processing, and a method for binding information from distinct representations that when faced with rapid change in the world can maintain a coherent, though distributed, view of it. Provisional results are demonstrated in a robot combining vision, manipulation, language, planning and reasoning capabilities interacting with a human and manipulable objects.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Nick Hawes, Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Michael Zillich, Henrik Jacobsson, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Michael Brenner, Gregor Berginc, Danijel Skocaj
• Keywords: AAAI 2007, Information Processing, Information Processing System, Intelligent Agents, Robot Combining Vision