Authors
Nick Hawes
Aaron Sloman
Jeremy L. Wyatt
Michael Zillich
H. Jacobsson
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff
Michael Brenner
Gregor Berginc
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Towards an Integrated Robot with Multiple Cognitive Functions
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007,
We present integration mechanisms for combining heterogeneous components in a situated information processing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a human and display some understanding of its surroundings. These mechanisms include an architectural schema that encourages parallel and incremental information processing, and a method for binding information from distinct representations that when faced with rapid change in the world can maintain a coherent, though distributed, view of it. Provisional results are demonstrated in a robot combining vision, manipulation, language, planning and reasoning capabilities interacting with a human and manipulable objects.