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 ...

Describes a communication framework which enables knowledge-based computing resources to act cooperatively over a high bandwidth data path. The system has been designed to allow unrestricted access to an agent's local ...

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 ...

The introduction of the Water Framework Directive has highlighted the need for water quality monitoring in freshwater systems, estuaries and at sea. Systems which currently exist for these tasks include fixed monitoring ...

In common with other Mars exploration missions, human supervision of Europe's ExoMars Rover will be mostly indirect via orbital relay spacecraft and thus far from immediate. The gap between issuing commands and witnessing ...