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Read MoreJosh Bongard, University of Vermont
The weekly 'Issues in Cognitive Science' series provides an informal setting in which faculty, graduate students and invited speakers present their current research or plans for future research, and discuss recent journal articles of general interest to cognitive scientists. The 'catered brown bag' meetings take place every other Wednesday, 12-1:30pm, Sage 4101. Many of these presentations may be viewed live on our online video stream, and after the fact in our video archive. General information for speakers
Josh Bongard, University of Vermont
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Sage 4101
September 1, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Industrial robotics has completely transformed heavy industry because such machines can perform the same actions repeatedly in a structured environment, such as a factory floor. However, we have so far failed to build machines which change their operation on the fly in response to unanticipated environmental or internal change, such as damage. I will present a class of autonomous robots which we have termed 'resilient machines': machines that constantly build and re-build approximate simulations of themselves and their immediate surroundings, and then use those simulations to internally rehearse behaviors before attempting them in reality. I will demonstrate how this technique allows a robot to autonomously recover from unanticipated damage; how it can be generalized to teams of robots; and how it can be used in social robotics, in which a robot must find and learn from an appropriate teacher.