Cognitive Systems (Cognitive Systems Monographs, 8)

Design of cognitive systems for assistance to people poses a major challenge to the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistance (CoSy) project was organized to address the issues of i) theoretical progress on design of cognitive systems ii) methods for implementation of systems and iii) empirical studies to further understand the use and interaction with such systems. To study, design and deploy cognitive systems there is a need to considers aspects of systems design, embodiment, perception, planning and error recovery, spatial insertion, knowledge acquisition and machine learning, dialog design and human robot interaction and systems integration. The CoSy project addressed all of these aspects over a period of four years and across two different domains of application ́ exploration of space and task / knowledge acquisition for manipulation. The present volume documents the results of the CoSy project. The CoSy project was funded by the European Commission as part of the Cognitive Systems Program within the 6th Framework Program Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Cognitive Systems Introduction....Pages 3-48 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Architecture and Representations....Pages 51-93 The Sensorimotor Approach in CoSy: The Example of Dimensionality Reduction....Pages 95-130 Categorical Perception....Pages 131-164 Semantic Modelling of Space....Pages 165-221 Planning and Failure Detection....Pages 223-264 Multi-modal Learning....Pages 265-309 Situated Dialogue Processing for Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 311-364 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 The PlayMate System....Pages 367-393 The Explorer System....Pages 395-421 Lessons Learnt from Scenario-Based Integration....Pages 423-438 Front Matter....Pages 439-439 Cross-Disciplinary Reflections: Philosophical Robotics....Pages 441-484 Lessons and Outlook....Pages 485-489 Back Matter....Pages -