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Erschienen in: Cognitive Computation 5/2015

01.10.2015

A New Action Execution Module for the Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent (LIDA): The Sensory Motor System

verfasst von: Daqi Dong, Stan Franklin

Erschienen in: Cognitive Computation | Ausgabe 5/2015

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Abstract

This paper presents a cognitive model for an action execution process—the sensory motor system (SMS)—as a new module of the system-level cognitive model for “Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent” (LIDA). Action execution refers to a situation in which a software agent or robot transforms a selected goal-directed action into low-level executable actions and executes them in the real world. A sensorimotor system derived from the subsumption architecture has been implemented into the SMS; several cognitive neuroscience hypotheses have been incorporated as well, including the two visual systems. A computational SMS has been created inside a LIDA-based software agent in Webots to model the execution of a grip action; its simulated results have been verified against human performance. This computational verification by the comparison of model and human behaviors supports the SMS as a qualitatively reasonable cognitive model for action execution. Finally, the SMS has been compared with other alternative models of action execution; this supports the assertion that our new action execution module is applicable across a range of cognitive architectures.

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Fußnoten
1
For historical reasons, LIDA stands for Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent.
 
2
In this paper, we will only be concerned with the external environment, and not with LIDA’s internal environment.
 
3
In the LIDA Model, the concept of ventral and dorsal streams for the transmission of visual information has been extended to multimodal transmission.
 
4
Action learning is not yet implemented.
 
5
In LIDA, the dorsal stream channel directly passes sensory data from the sensory memory to the action execution process.
 
6
In this context, the term “action” refers to a component of a behavior. This differs from the general usage, such as in the phrase “action execution”. In this paper, we use “action” in the general sense, while “action of a behavior” refers to a particular component of that behavior.
 
7
‘An explicit desire to perform the action’ refers to a selected behavior; ‘a different mechanism’ is our SMS; and ‘the representation [that] loses its explicit character’ indicates executable motor commands.
 
8
In comparison with the original design 19.Connell JH. A colony architecture for an artificial creature. DTIC Document, 1989., the cradle level, the back module, and the edge module were removed in the simulation because either their function is substituted for by the Webots simulated environment, or they are irrelevant to the hand and arm actuators.
 
9
The Webots Supervisor "is a privileged type of Robot that can execute operations that can normally only be carried out by a human operator and not by a real robot” (www.​cyberbotics.​com). It is irrelevant to the machine learning concept of supervised learning.
 
10
There is only very limited direct connectivity between perceptual and motor modules. Spatial information in particular is communicated directly.
 
11
Although no central world state is one of the essences of the subsumption architecture, implicit understanding and expectation of the environment has been built into the architecture by its layered structure.
 
12
There is the learning of implicit knowledge (the back-propagation network) at the bottom level. “In this learning setting, there is no need for external teachers providing desired input/output mappings. This (implicit) learning method may be cognitively justified” [28].
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A New Action Execution Module for the Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent (LIDA): The Sensory Motor System
verfasst von
Daqi Dong
Stan Franklin
Publikationsdatum
01.10.2015
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Cognitive Computation / Ausgabe 5/2015
Print ISSN: 1866-9956
Elektronische ISSN: 1866-9964
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-015-9322-3

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