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DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self

Artificial Intelligence 2021-01-25 v2 Robotics

Abstract

This paper introduces a cognitive architecture for a humanoid robot to engage in a proactive, mixed-initiative exploration and manipulation of its environment, where the initiative can originate from both the human and the robot. The framework, based on a biologically-grounded theory of the brain and mind, integrates a reactive interaction engine, a number of state-of-the-art perceptual and motor learning algorithms, as well as planning abilities and an autobiographical memory. The architecture as a whole drives the robot behavior to solve the symbol grounding problem, acquire language capabilities, execute goal-oriented behavior, and express a verbal narrative of its own experience in the world. We validate our approach in human-robot interaction experiments with the iCub humanoid robot, showing that the proposed cognitive architecture can be applied in real time within a realistic scenario and that it can be used with naive users.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03661,
  title  = {DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self},
  author = {Clément Moulin-Frier and Tobias Fischer and Maxime Petit and Grégoire Pointeau and Jordi-Ysard Puigbo and Ugo Pattacini and Sock Ching Low and Daniel Camilleri and Phuong Nguyen and Matej Hoffmann and Hyung Jin Chang and Martina Zambelli and Anne-Laure Mealier and Andreas Damianou and Giorgio Metta and Tony J. Prescott and Yiannis Demiris and Peter Ford Dominey and Paul F. M. J. Verschure},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03661},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Preprint version; final version available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (Accepted) DOI: 10.1109/TCDS.2017.2754143