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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-5336112-0, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ofai.at
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Dr. Martin V. Butz
Universitaet Wuerzburg
http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/i3pages/butz/
"Learning and Adapting Flexible, Autonomous, Intrinsically Motivated,
Goal-directed Behavioral Control"
Human and animal behavior exhibits an immense behavioral flexibility,
which cannot be achieved by state-of-the-art robotic systems.
Particularly, redundant behavioral alternatives are flexibly and
efficiently employed to satisfy current goals considering bodily and
environmental circumstances. Neuroscientific studies show that this
flexibility is realized by the means of modular, sensorimotor bodyspace
representations. In the COBOSLAB (COgnitive BOdySpaces: Learning And Behavior)
laboratory we study how such bodyspaces can be learned and adapted in ways
maximally suitable for the realization of flexible, goal-directed behavioral control.
Studies in robot arm control with redundant degrees of freedom show that
distributed population codes can yield highly effective, flexibly adjustable,
kinematic behavior. Also dynamic plants can be controlled when coupling
the resulting kinematic control routines with adaptive PD mechanisms.
Similar principles apply for autonomous robot vehicle control.
Finally, we show how motivations can be easily included, so that the resulting
system is able to self-activate the currently most relevant goal-directed behavior
in a self-motivated manner.
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Zeit: Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, 11:15 Uhr pktl.
Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence, OFAI
Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 1010 Wien.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl
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