Active perception refers to a theoretical approach to the study of perception grounded on the idea that perceiving is a way of acting, rather than a process whereby the brain constructs an internal representation of the ...

In this paper, we describe an approach to adapting home service robot behaviors by reusing the experience learned and interacting with humans. Experience is situation-based and is integrated into each behavior in a distributed ...

This paper describes a prototype robot grasping system that uses human grasping synergies and a self-organizing map to learn object affordances. The bio-inspired design of the system is presented as well as some of the ...

In this report we present an algorithm to estimate the heading of a robot relative to a heading specified at the beginning of the process. This is done by computing the rotation of the robot between successive panoramic ...

This paper presents an artificial immune system (AIS) which produces artificial immune networks that are meaningful, of a bounded size and dynamic over a very large number of data presentations. This behaviour had proved ...

Sophisticated robot systems have become an important part in cognition research. On the one hand, autonomous robots are intended to provide a proof of concept for cognitive models. On the other hand, cognition research ...

Advanced autonomous artificial systems will need incremental learning and adaptive abilities similar to those seen in humans. Knowledge from biology, psychology and neuroscience is now inspiring new approaches for systems ...

Autonomous following of ill-defined roads is an important part of visual navigation systems. This paper presents an adaptive method that uses a statistical model of the color of the road surface within a trapezoidal shape ...

APIC (Automatic Pointing and Image Capture) is an automatic algorithm capable of identifying potential imaging targets in a single WAC (Wide Angled Camera) image and then reimaging these targets using a HRC (High Resolution ...