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Robots, Reasoning, and Reification

By James P. Gunderson , Louise F. Gunderson (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2009
ISBN
978-0-387-87487-6, 978-0-387-87488-3
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-87488-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6194171 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
208\205
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

Description

Robots, Reasoning, and Reification focuses on a critical obstacle that is preventing the development of intelligent, autonomous robots:the gap between the ability to reason about the world and the ability to sense the world and translate that sensory data into a symbolic model. This ability is what enables living systems to look at the world and perceive the things in it. In addition, intelligent living systems can extrapolate from their mental models and predict the effects of their actions in the real world. The authors call this bi-directional mapping of sensor data to symbols and symbolic manipulation onto real world effects reification. After exploring the gulf between bottom-up and top-down approaches to autonomous robotics, the book develops the concepts of reification from biologically based premises, and follows the development into the necessary components and structures that can be used to provide equivalent capabilities for intelligent robots. It continues by demonstrating how the reification engine supports both learning from experience and creating new behaviors and representations of the world.

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