GOAL-Leaders: Goal-directed, Adaptive Builder Robots

Post date: Oct 21, 2012 4:30:43 PM

The Goal-Leaders project aims at developing biologically-constrained architectures for the next generation of adaptive service robots, with unprecedented levels of goal-directedness and proactivity.

Goal-Leaders will realize builder robots able to realize externally assigned tasks (e.g., fetching objects, composing building parts) and, at the same time, keeping their homeostatic drives within a safe range (e.g., never end up without energy or get hurt), by operating autonomously and for prolonged periods of time in open-ended environments.

See a video here: http://videolectures.net/cogsys2012_pezzulo_builder/

To this aim, Goal-Leaders will pursue a combined neuroscientific, computational and robotic study of three key sets of competences:

The Ro

  • the biological and computational mechanisms behind an agent’s goal system, which integrates somatic, affective, and cognitive elements, and realizes the setting and selection of the agent’s goals;

  • the biological and computational mechanisms that support the assignment of situation-dependent value to an agent’s state and action representations, and therefore realize the link between the agent’s goal system and perceptual-motor processes;

  • the biological and computational mechanisms behind an agent’s anticipatory and mental simulation abilities.

The Robot Builder Scenario

The goal-leaders project ws funded by the EU under grant agreement FP7 270108. It started 01/03/2011

Web page: http://www.goal-leaders.eu/