2. Goal-Leaders

Post date: Oct 23, 2012 8:46:30 AM

I'm taking part in Goal-Leaders, a project which 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.

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

• 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 goal-leaders project was funded by the EU under grant agreement FP7270108. It started 01/03/2011

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