Robots, Reasoning, and Reification
| Author/creator | Gunderson, James P. Author |
| Other author | Gunderson, James Patrick Author |
| Other author | Gunderson, L. F. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Springer |
| Description | xvi, 208 p. ill 23.500 x 015.500 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Nature - Springer Computer Science eBooks 2009 English International |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
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| Summary | Annotation Robots, Reasoning, and Reification focuses on a critical obstacle that is preventing the development of intelligent, autonomous robots: the gap between the ability to reason about the world and the ability to sense the world and translate that sensory data into a symbolic model.This ability is what enables living systems to look at the world and perceive the things in it. In addition, intelligent living systems can extrapolate from their mental models and predict the effects of their actions in the real world. The authors call this bi-directional mapping of sensor data to symbols and symbolic manipulation onto real world effects reification. After exploring the gulf between bottom-up and top-down approaches to autonomous robotics, the book develops the concepts of reification from biologically based premises, and follows the development into the necessary components and structures that can be used to provide equivalent capabilities for intelligent robots. It continues by demonstrating how the reification engine supports both learning from experience and creating new behaviors and representations of the world. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780387874876 |
| ISBN | 0387874879 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780387874876 |
| Stock number | 00024965 |