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Staged development of robot skills: behavior formation, affordance learning and imitation
(IEEE, 2015-06)
Inspired by infant development, we propose a three staged developmental framework for an anthropomorphic robot manipulator. In the first stage, the robot is initialized with a basic reach-and- enclose-on-contact movement ...
Minimal sign representation of boolean functions: algorithms and exact results for low dimensions
(MIT Press, 2015-08)
Boolean functions (BFs) are central in many fields of engineering and mathematics, such as cryptography, circuit design, and combinatorics. Moreover, they provide a simple framework for studying neural computation mechanisms ...
Effective robot skill synthesis via divided control
(IEEE, 2018-07-02)
Learning from demonstration is a powerful method for obtaining task skills, which aim to eliminate the need for explicit robot programming. Classically, the tasks are demonstrated to the robot by means of either recorded ...
Action and language mechanisms in the brain: data, models and neuroinformatics
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-01)
We assess the challenges of studying action and language mechanisms in the brain, both singly and in relation to each other to provide a novel perspective on neuroinformatics, integrating the development of databases for ...
Algorithms for obtaining parsimonious higher order neurons
(Springer International Publishing, 2017)
Most neurons in the central nervous system exhibit all-or-none firing behavior. This makes Boolean Functions (BFs) tractable candidates for representing computations performed by neurons, especially at finer time scales, ...
Cognition-enabled robot manipulation in human environments: requirements, recent work, and open problems
(IEEE, 2017-09)
Service robots are expected to play an important role in our daily lives as our companions in home and work environments in the near future. An important requirement for fulfilling this expectation is to equip robots with ...
Mirror neurons: Functions, mechanisms and models
(Elsevier, 2013-04-12)
Mirror neurons for manipulation fire both when the animal manipulates an object in a specific way and when it sees another animal (or the experimenter) perform an action that is more or less similar. Such neurons were ...
Parental scaffolding as a bootstrapping mechanism for learning grasp affordances and imitation skills
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-06)
Parental scaffolding is an important mechanism that speeds up infant sensorimotor development. Infants pay stronger attention to the features of the objects highlighted by parents, and their manipulation skills develop ...
Symbol emergence in cognitive developmental systems: A survey
(IEEE, 2019-12)
Humans use signs, e.g., sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought. Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents and adaptation to our real-world environment. ...
Emergent emotion via neural computational energy conservation on a humanoid robot
(IEEE, 2013)
This paper presents our initial work on how emotion based behaviors may emerge through computational mechanisms. We hold that in addition to basic emotions such as anger and fear that serves bodily well being of the organism, ...
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