We report results of an interdisciplinary project which aims at endowing a real robot system with the capacity for learning by goaldirected imitation. The control architecture is biologically inspired as it reflects recent experimental findings in action observation/execution studies. We test its functionality in variations of an imitation paradigm in which the artefact has to reproduce the observed or inferred ...
Our everyday, common sense ability to discern the intentions of others’ from their motions is fundamental for a successful cooperation in joint action tasks. In this paper we address in a modeling study the question of how the ability to understand complex goal-directed action sequences may develop during learning and practice. The model architecture reflects recent neurophysiological findings that suggest the ...
In this paper we present a robot control architecture for learning by imitation which takes inspiration from recent discoveries in action observation/execution experiments with humans and other primates. The architecture implements two basic processing principles: 1) imitation is primarily directed toward reproducing the goal/end state of an observed action sequence, and 2) the required capacity to understand t...
The understanding of other individuals' actions is a fundamental cognitive skill for all species living in social groups. Recent neurophysiological evidence suggests that an observer may achieve the understanding by mapping visual information onto his own motor repertoire to reproduce the action effect. However, due to differences in embodiment, environmental constraints or motor skills, this mapping very often...
Comunicação apresentada na "Joint-Action Science and Technology (JAST) Opening Conference", em Atenas, Grécia, em 2005.
We report results of an interdisciplinary project which aims at endowing a real robot system with the capacity for learning by goaldirected imitation. The control architecture is biologically inspired as it reflects recent experimental findings in action observation/execution studies. We test its functionality in variations of an imitation paradigm in which the artefact has to reproduce the observed or inferred...
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