Title
IMITATION LEARNING AND ANCHORING THROUGH CONCEPTUAL SPACES
Abstract
In order to have a robotic system able to effectively learn by imitation and not merely reproduce the movements of a human teacher, the system should have the capability to deeply understand the perceived actions to be imitated. This paper deals with the development of a cognitive architecture for learning by imitation in which a rich conceptual representation of the observed actions is built. The purpose of the following discussion is to show how the same conceptual representation can be used both in a bottom-up approach, in order to learn sequences of actions by imitation learning paradigm, and in a top-down approach, in order to anchor the symbolical representations to the perceptual activities of the robotic system. Experiments concerned with the problem of teaching a humanoid robotic system simple manipulative tasks are reported.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1080/08839510701252619
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
conceptual spaces,cognitive architecture,symbolical representation,imitation learning,rich conceptual representation,top-down approach,robotic system,conceptual representation,following discussion,bottom-up approach,human teacher,humanoid robotic system,bottom up,humanoid robot,top down
Robotic systems,Computer science,Cognitive science,Anchoring,Cognitive imitation,Artificial intelligence,Imitation,Cognitive architecture,Imitation learning,Perception,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
4-5
0883-9514
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.60
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Chella137465.74
Haris Dindo212517.49
Ignazio Infantino315132.13