Robot trajectory prediction and recognition based on a computational mirror neurons model

  • Authors:
  • Junpei Zhong;Cornelius Weber;Stefan Wermter

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'11 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Artificial neural networks - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Mirror neurons are premotor neurons that are considered to play a role in goal-directed actions, action understanding and even social cognition. As one of the promising research areas in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and cognitive physiology, understanding mirror neurons in a social cognition context, whether with neural or computational models, is still an open issue [5]. In this paper, we mainly focus on the action understanding aspect of mirror neurons, which can be regarded as a fundamental function of social cooperation and social cognition. Our proposed initial architecture is to learn a simulation of the walking pattern of a humanoid robot and to predict where the robot is heading on the basis of its previous walking trajectory.