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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Playful Machine
    sub title: Theoretical Foundation and Practical Realization of Self-Organizing Robots
  name:
    name part: Der, Ralf.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Martius, Georg.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 336 p. 166 illus., 151 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Autonomous robots may become our closest companions in the near future. While the technology for physically building such machines is already available today, a problem lies in the generation of the behavior for such complex machines. Nature proposes a solution: young children and higher animals learn to master their complex brain-body systems by playing. Can this be an option for robots? How can a machine be playful? The book provides answers by developing a general principle---homeokinesis, the dynamical symbiosis between brain, body, and environment---that is shown to drive robots to self- determined, individual development in a playful and obviously embodiment- related way: a dog-like robot starts playing with a barrier, eventually jumping or climbing over it; a snakebot develops coiling and jumping modes; humanoids develop climbing behaviors when fallen into a pit, or engage in wrestling-like scenarios when encountering an opponent. The book also develops guided self-organization, a new method that helps to make the playful machines fit for fulfilling tasks in the real world. The book provides two levels of presentation. Students and scientific researchers interested in the field of robotics, self-organization and dynamical systems theory may be satisfied by the in-depth mathematical analysis of the principle, the bootstrapping scenarios, and the emerging behaviors. But the book additionally comes with a robotics simulator inviting also the non- scientific reader to simply enjoy the fabulous world of playful machines by performing the numerous experiments.
  table of contents: 1.Introduction -- 2.Self-Organization in Nature and Machines -- 3.The Sensorimotor Loop. - 4.Principles of Self-Regulation - Homeostasis . - 5.A General Approach to Self-Organization - Homeokinesis -- 6.From Fixed-Point Flows to Hysteresis Oscillators -- 7.Symmetries, Resonances, and Second Order Hysteresis -- 8.Low Dimensional Robotic Systems -- 9.Model Learning -- 10.High-Dimensional Robotic Systems -- 11.Facing the Unknown - Homeokinesis in a New Representation* -- 12.Guided Self-Organization - A First Realization -- 13.Channeling Self-Organization -- 14.Reward-Driven Self-Organization -- 15.Algorithmic Implementation -- 16.The LPZROBOTS Simulator -- 17.Discussion and Perspectives -- List of Figures -- List of Videos -- List of Experiments -- References -- Index.
  note: by Ralf Der, Georg Martius.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  classification: T57-57.97
  classification: 519
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 15
  identifier: 9783642202537
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20253-7
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    record creation date: 120110
    record change date: 20151125192902.0
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