Robots, Reasoning, and Reification

• Main Authors: Gunderson, James P. (Author), Gunderson, Louise F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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...

Table of Contents:

• Some background material on probability and biology
• Using Cognition and Physiology to Build a Cognitive Model
• Representation
• Perception/Action System
• Design of a Reification Engine
• Bridging the Sensor to Symbol Gap
• Working Memory and the Construction of Personal Experiences
• Semantic Memory and the Personal Rough Ontology
• Deliberative System
• Putting it All Together
• Testing
• Where do we go from here.