Overview
- Presents action oriented perception from a novel point of view, dealing with complex systems and applied to mobile robotics
- Presents a blend of biologically inspired algorithms and robot prototypes and complex nonlinear dynamics
- Carefully edited outcome of a European research Project called “SPARK”, whose aim is to develop completely new sensing-perceiving-moving artefacts inspired by the basic principles of living systems and based on the concept of “self-organization”
Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 1)
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The basic principles guiding sensing, perception and action in bio systems seem to rely on highly organised spatial-temporal dynamics. In fact, all biological senses, (visual, hearing, tactile, etc.) process signals coming from different parts distributed in space and also show a complex time evolution. As an example, mammalian retina performs a parallel representation of the visual world embodied into layers, each of which r- resents a particular detail of the scene. These results clearly state that visual perception starts at the level of the retina, and is not related uniquely to the higher brain centres. Although vision remains the most useful sense guiding usual actions, the other senses, ?rst of all hearing but also touch, become essential particularly in cluttered conditions, where visual percepts are somehow obscured by environment conditions. Ef?cient use of hearing can be learnt from acoustic perception in animals/insects, like crickets, that use this ancient sense more than all the others, to perform a vital function, like mating.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Software/Hardware Cognitive Architecture and Experiments
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“This book is aimed at researchers interested in mobile robots. The book is comprised of a collection of papers that cover the results of the European research project ‘SPARK.’ The goal of the project is to develop biologically inspired cognitive architectures and sensing-perceiving-moving artifacts based on self-organization in complex systems. The results are divided into three parts, including principles of insect perception, cognitive models, and software/hardware cognitive architecture and experiments.” (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, August, 2010)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots
Editors: Paolo Arena, Luca Patanè
Series Title: Cognitive Systems Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88464-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-88463-7Published: 03 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10014-7Published: 08 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-88464-4Published: 19 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1867-4925
Series E-ISSN: 1867-4933
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 429
Topics: Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Robotics and Automation, Complex Systems, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Artificial Intelligence, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems