Cognitive Systems
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 progres
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enrik Iskov Christensen, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, and Jeremy L. Wyatt (Eds.)
Cognitive Systems
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Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Anthropomatics, Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Laboratories, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Yoshihiko Nakamura, Tokyo University Fac. Engineering, Dept. Mechano-Informatics, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bukyo-ku Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California, Department Computer Science, Computational Learning & Motor Control Lab., Los Angeles, CA 90089-2905, USA David Vernon, Khalifa University Department of Computer Engineering, PO Box 573, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Editors Henrik Iskov Christensen Georgia Tech RIM@GT 801 Atlantic Dr. Atlanta, GA 30332 USA E-mail: [email protected]
Jeremy L. Wyatt School of Computer Science University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK E-mail: [email protected]
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbrücken Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-11693-3
e-ISBN 978-3-642-11694-0
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11694-0 Cognitive Systems Monographs
ISSN 1867-4925
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925225 c 2010
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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Quotes from the CoSy Science Advisors While there is still a long way to come close to the objective of the European Commission Cognitive Systems initiative “to construct physically instantiated or embodied systems that can perceive, understand, . . . and interact with their environments and evolve in order to achieve human-like performance” this book is about one of the funded projects in this initiative. It gives and excellent insight into the challenges and benefits of working in an large interdisciplinary team to better understand the human mind and in order to build intelligent machines. Heinrich B¨ ulthoff, MPIK
One of the great challenges of the 21st century is to build a robot that can perceive and act within its environment and communicate with people, while also exhibiting the cognitive capabilities that lead to performance like that of peop