Multi-sensory Integration in a Quantum-Like Robot Perception Model
Abstract
Formalisms inspired by Quantum theory have been used in Cognitive Science for decades. Indeed, Quantum-Like (QL) approaches provide descriptive features that are inherently suitable for perception, cognition, and decision processing. A preliminary study on the feasibility of a QL robot perception model has been carried out for a robot with limited sensing capabilities. In this paper, we generalize such a model for multi-sensory inputs, creating a multidimensional world representation directly based on sensor readings. Given a 3-dimensional case study, we highlight how this model provides a compact and elegant representation, embodying features that are extremely useful for modeling uncertainty and decision. Moreover, the model enables to naturally define query operators to inspect any world state, which answers quantifies the robot's degree of belief on that state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.16404,
title = {Multi-sensory Integration in a Quantum-Like Robot Perception Model},
author = {Davide Lanza and Paolo Solinas and Fulvio Mastrogiovanni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.16404},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Paper submitted to the 17th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Malta, Nov. 9-12, 2020