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Robots, reasoning, and reification

Title
Robots, reasoning, and reification / by James P. Gunderson, Louise F. Gunderson.
Author
Gunderson, James Patrick.
Publication
New York ; London : Springer, [2009], ©2009.

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Gunderson, L. F. (Louise F.)
Description
xv, 201 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Robots, Reasoning, and Reification focuses on a critical obstacle that is preventing the development of intelligent, autonomous robots:the gap between the ability to reason about the world and the ability to sense the world and translate that sensory data into a symbolic model. This ability is what enables living systems to look at the world and perceive the things in it. In addition, intelligent living systems can extrapolate from their mental models and predict the effects of their actions in the real world. The authors call this bi-directional mapping of sensor data to symbols and symbolic manipulation onto real world effects reification. After exploring the gulf between bottom-up and top-down approaches to autonomous robotics, the book develops the concepts of reification from biologically based premises, and follows the development into the necessary components and structures that can be used to provide equivalent capabilities for intelligent robots. It continues by demonstrating how the reification engine supports both learning from experience and creating new behaviors and representations of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Some background material on probability and biology -- 3. Using Cognition and Physiology to Build a Cognitive Model -- 4. Representation -- 5. Perception/Action System -- 6. Design of a Reification Engine -- 7. Bridging the Sensor to Symbol Gap -- 8. Working Memory and the Construction of Personal Experiences -- 9. Semantic Memory and the Personal Rough Ontology -- 10. Deliberative System -- 11. Putting it All Together -- 12. Testing -- 13. Where do we go from here.
ISBN
  • 9780387874876 (hbk.)
  • 0387874879 (hbk.)
LCCN
40016328081
OCLC
  • ocn268931373
  • 268931373
  • SCSB-5455270
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries