IMITATION LEARNING AND ANCHORING THROUGH CONCEPTUAL SPACES

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Chella;Haris Dindo;Ignazio Infantino

  • Affiliations:
  • Dip. di Ingengeria Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Dip. di Ingengeria Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In order to have a robotic system able to effectively learn by imitation and not merely reproduce the movements of a human teacher, the system should have the capability to deeply understand the perceived actions to be imitated. This paper deals with the development of a cognitive architecture for learning by imitation in which a rich conceptual representation of the observed actions is built. The purpose of the following discussion is to show how the same conceptual representation can be used both in a bottom-up approach, in order to learn sequences of actions by imitation learning paradigm, and in a top-down approach, in order to anchor the symbolical representations to the perceptual activities of the robotic system. Experiments concerned with the problem of teaching a humanoid robotic system simple manipulative tasks are reported.