The Humanoid Perspective : Adaptive peripersonal space representation and motor learning for a humanoid robot

ISBN-13: 9783639150452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str.

Micha Hersch

Opis

In recent years, humanoid robotics have been theobject of growing interest and investments in theacademic and industrial worlds. And indeed,autonomous robots are announced to imminently enterour households. However, beyond the boastfuldeclarations, many challenges still remain to be meton this way. This book focuses on one of the mostfundamental ones, the question of action-orientedspace representation and motor learning. Highlightingthe main difficulties encountered by researchers, itshows how taking inspiration from the human spacerepresentation and motor control can lead to originalrobotics solutions. It suggests a way to enable ahumanoid to learn how to control its limbs and tolearn simple tasks from human demonstrations.In doing so, the book explores a fruitful butdifficult dialogue between engineering and cognitivesciences, illustrating its potential benefits andpitfalls. This book is intended to people wishing tohave a more precise idea of current advances inhumanoid space representation and motor learning, aswell as for scientists who may find it a usefulsource of inspiration for their own research.

O autorze

Micha Hersch has a master in computer science and in cognitive
science, and a PhD in robotics from the Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He worked four years in
the development of the Icub humanoid robot, as part of the
robotcub consortium. He is now doing research in computational
biology at the University of Lausanne.