Cognitive mechanism of concept formation and manipulation based on own sensory-motor experience

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870649
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics; Soft computing
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Arie Hiroaki 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 助教 (20424814)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 記号接地問題 / ニューラルネットワーク / 認知発達ロボティクス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project aims to understand the cognitive mechanism of concept formation and manipulation from a constructive approach. A recurrent neural network model is used as a learning model to associate linguistic command and robot behavior. To evaluate this method, we design a simple object manipulation task in which a human verbally directs a robot, which responds appropriately. The result shows that the model has an ability to self-organize an internal structure representing the task structure. The achievements of this project could be applied not only to engineering techniques but also to academic studies on cognitive science.

Free Research Field

認知ロボティクス