Title
Does it help a robot navigate to call navigability an affordance?
Abstract
Gibson's notion of affordance seems to attract roboticists' attention. On a phenomenological level, it allows functions, which have "somehow" been implemented, to be described using a new terminology. However, that does not mean that the affordance notion is of help for building robots and their controllers. This paper explores viewing an affordance as an abstraction from a robot-environment relation that is of inter-individual use, but requires an individual implementation. Therefore, the notion of affordance helps share environment representations and theories among robots. Examples are given for navigability, as afforded by environments of different types to robots of different undercarriages and sensor configurations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/978-3-540-77915-5_2
Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
inter-individual use,phenomenological level,sensor configuration,individual implementation,affordance notion,robot-environment relation,different type,share environment representation,different undercarriage,new terminology
Robot control,Terminology,Computer science,Symbol grounding,Navigability,Human–computer interaction,Social affordance,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Affordance,Mobile robot
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4760
0302-9743
3-540-77914-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.45
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joachim Hertzberg11571142.29
Kai Lingemann255535.98
Christopher Lörken3643.65
Andreas Nächter410.45
Stefan Stiene5397.43