Architectures (WP6)
The purpose of the "architectures" workpackage is to find ways to join the modules and mechanisms into comprehensive motor behavior control architectures. This can certainly not be achieved by a mere adding up of parts. A number of fundamental questions need to be resolved concerning the nature of top-down vs. bottom-up interactions between modules; the representations within modules and the communication/transformations between modules of world and body features, goals, rewards and control actions; interactions between learning mechanisms and more. We will structure the research in this WP by progressing through an evolutionary sequence of architectures, each of which lends itself to the design of a “complete Iguana” (to use a famous phrase of Rodney Brooks), rising in level of cognitive autonomy and flexibility. Leading institute: Jacobs University Bremen |
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