New Paper: The "Beam in the Bin" Experiment

[ Ray Allis (941111.1630 PST)]

[ Interesting turn of phrase: "how it may predict the sensory
  result of a given action". I'm skeptical, but maybe one of you
  is not such a curmudgeon? Ray]

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 10:54:03 +0100
X-Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble
To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: New Paper: The "Beam in the Bin" Experiment

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TITLE :Representing Robot/Environment Interactions Using
                 Probabilities: the "Beam in the Bin" Experiment

AUTHOR(S) :Pierre Bessiere, Eric Dedieu & Emmanuel Mazer

REFERENCE :PerAc'94; From Perception to Action Conference;
                 Edited by P. Gaussier & J-D Nicoud;
                 IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-6482-7
                 Lausanne, Switzerland, 1994

LANGUAGE :English

LENGTH :12 pages

DATE :September 1994

KEYWORDS :Cognitive Sciences; Autonomous Robotics;
                 Probabilistic Reasoning

FILE NAME :bessiere.perac94.e.ps.gz

Author E-mail :bessiere@imag.fr

Related Files :dedieu.rochebrune94.f.ps.gz
                 bessiere.rochebrune94.f.ps.gz
                 bessiere.cognitiva90.e.ps.gz

ABSTRACT :

This paper presents a very simple robotic experiment to illustrate how
probabilistic reasoning may be used for sensory-motor systems.

We will show how our robot may learn internal representations of its
interactions with the environment, how it may predict the sensory
result of a given action, how it may generate motor command to reach a
wished sensory situation, how it may recognize different status
and novel conditions and finally how it may behave consistently to explore
and exploit simultaneously its environment.

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E-Mail: Pierre.Bessiere@imag.fr

Notre esprit a une irresistible tendance a considerer comme plus claire
l'idee qui lui sert le plus souvent.

BERGSON "La pensee et le mouvant"

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