M07 - Cognitive Robotics

Question 1

What is cognition robotics?

Answer 1

Cognitive robotics is the field that combines insight and methods from AI, as well as cognitive and biological sciences, to robotics

Question 2

What are the six attributes of cognition?

Answer 2

• autonomy
• action
• perception
• adapt
• anticipate
• learn

Question 3

What are the 2 views of cognition?

Answer 3

• Classical AI approach
• Embodied AI approach

Question 4

What is the classical AI approach?

Answer 4

• intelligence as computation (cognitivism)
• “The Thinker”

Question 5

What is the embodied AI approach?

Answer 5

• intelligent behaviors emerge from the bodily interaction with the environment

Question 6

What is cognitive robotics?

Answer 6

• human-like behavior and intelligence
• interdisciplinary approach (cognitive science, psychology, biology)
• System-level integration of a range of cognitive abilities

Question 7

How do cognitive robots achieve their goals?

Answer 7

• perceiving their environment
• paying attention to the events that matter
• anticipating the need for some action
• planning what to do
• anticipating the outcomes as it executes the action
• learning from the resulting interaction
• adapting to change

Question 8

Why is cognition useful for robots?

Answer 8

• allows them to work autonomously
• enables effective interaction
• etc.

Question 9

What are some desirable characteristics?

Answer 9

• Value systems and motives
• Physical embodiment
• Sensorimotor contingencies
• Perception
• Attention
• Prospective action
• Declarative and procedural memory
• Multiple modes of learning
• Internal simulation
• Constitutive autonomy

Question 10

What is SOAR?

Answer 10

Symbolic Long-Term Memories
- used by a symbolic engine to handle memory operations such as loads and stores performed by the executed program.

Question 11

What is the SOIMA architecture?

Answer 11

• the units of the architecture are self organizing maps
• implementation of inverse and forward models in the same architecture
• missing modality representation can be constructed
• sensory motor mapping

Question 12

Why do we study cognitive robotics?

Answer 12

1. Build smart robots
2. Understand cognition

Question 13

How can you characterize human development?

Answer 13

• online learning
• crossmodal learning
• continuous learning
• open-ended learning

Question 14

What is online learning?

Answer 14

Refers to the fact that learning happens while the child interacts with the environment and not in an offline mode

Question 15

What is crossmodal learning?

Answer 15

Refers to the fact that different modalities and cognitive domain are acquired in parallel by the child and interact with each other

Question 16

What is continuous and open-ended learning?

Answer 16

Refers to the fact that learning and development do not start and stop at specific stages but rather are lifelong learning experiences

Question 17

What cognitive development emerges in a dynamic environment?

Answer 17

• emergence of new forms of action
• acquisition of predictive control of these actions

Question 18

What is learning?

Answer 18

• a process for improving the performance of a system
• a process for estimating or improving the parameter values that govern the behavior of a known model

Question 19

What is development?

Answer 19

• a process for generating or discovering the model itself
• requires two-way interaction between agent and world
• requires scaffolding on existing capabilities