New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems
Artificial Life
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
Emergent distribution of computational workload in the evolution of an undulatory animat
SAB'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior: from animals to animats
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part I
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Traditionally, in robotics, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience, there has been a focus on the study of the control or the neural system itself. Recently there has been an increasing interest into the notion of embodiment not only in robotics and artificial intelligence, but also in the neurosciences, psychology, and philosophy. In this paper, we introduce the notion of morphological computation and demonstrate how it can be exploited on the one hand for designing intelligent, adaptive robotic systems, and on the other for understanding natural systems. While embodiment has often been used in its trivial meaning, i.e. "intelligence requires a body", the concept has deeper and more important implications, concerned with the relation between physical and information (neural, control) processes. Behavior is not the result of brain processes only, but there is a "task distribution" among brain processes (control), morphology, and materials. For example, the positioning of the sensors on the agent, the particular morphology (the anatomy), and the material properties of the muscle-tendon system (the biomechanical constraints) can be exploited for generating adaptive behavior. Morphological computation is about connecting brain, body, and environment (e.g. Pfeifer, et al., 2005, Pfeifer and Gomez, 2005, and Pfeifer and Bongard, 2005).