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2005-06-29: Human SCINT Seminar (7)
Poster Mihoko Otake  Registed 2005-12-25 22:26 (2316 hits)

Date: 2005.6.29 (Wed) 13:00-14:15
Place: General Research Building, Room 663
Speaker: Hideki Kadone
Title: Dynamical Systems Approach to Embodied Symbol Emergence
Keywords: Embodied Symbol Emergence, Dynamical Systems, Embodiment

Affiliation: Department of Mechano-Informatics,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Position: Graduate Student
Adviser: Yoshihiko Nakamura, Nakamura Laboratory
Disciplines: Robotics, Neural Network, Dynamical Systems
Societies and Conferences: Robotics Society of Japan, Japan Neural Network Society

Bibliography: Hideki Kadone, Dynamical Systems Approach to Embodied Symbol Emergence, Human Science Integration Seminar Abstracts, No. 7, pp. 1, 2005.
(Please use this bibliography when you cite this abstract.)

Abstract:
Symbols are important for intelligent systems. Extracting important information from physical experiences and memorizing them as symbols enable one to apply the acquired information to other different situations. From this point of view, memory systems for humanoid robots are expected to have the function to self-organize symbols from accumulated associations of specific bodily memories.

We describe a memory system which forms symbolic representations and maintains specific-symbolic hierarchy based on stored memories of motion patterns, which was proposed by the presenter. The system consists of feature vectors of motions patterns based on auto-correlation of sequential postures, and an associative memory model with nonmonotonic activation function. The associative memory model encodes the symbols and the hierarchy by bifurcations attractors naturally mirroring the inherent hierarchical structure of the stored motion patterns.

In addition, as one of the potential physical bodily phenomena that make embodied symbol emergence possible, passive walking, which is a phenomenon that a compass-like mechanism walks down a slope without control with some stability, is discussed. Current situations of researches on them are reviewed.

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