Cognitive Robotics Resources
Contents
Research
Research Challenges
Social Cognition for Human-Robot Symbiosis—Challenges and Building Blocks
The limits and potentials of deep learning for robotics
Building machines that learn and think like people
Controversies in Cognitive Systems Research
A First Draft Analysis of Some Meta-Requirements for Cognitive Systems in Robots
Cognitive Architecture Surveys
40 years of cognitive architectures: core cognitive abilities and practical applications
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society (BICA)
A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part II: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures
Cognitive Architecture Design Principles
Design principles for biologically inspired cognitive robotics
Desiderata for Developmental Cognitive Architectures
A Standard Model of the Mind, now referred to as a Common Model of Cognition
White Papers
Dynamic Field Theory (DFT): Applications in Cognitive Science and Robotics
Observing Human Behaviour in Image Sequences: The Video-Hermeneutic Challenge
Cognitive Ontologies: Mapping Structure and Function of the Brain from a Systemic View
Coordinating with the Future: the Anticipatory Nature of Representation
Communication and Distributed Control in Multi-Agent Systems: Preliminary Model of Micro-unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Swarms
Enactive Artificial Intelligence
CoEvolutionary Approaches in Cognitive Robotic Systems Design
Action Selection for Intelligent Systems
Robot Platforms
- EASE - Everyday Activity Science & Engineering: how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents
- The iCub is an open source cognitive humanoid robotic platform.
Research Networks
- TC-CORO: IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics
- EUCog: European Society for Cognitive Systems
- BICA: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society
Publications
Software Resources
- AKIRA is an open source C++ framework for designing distributed, modular agent architectures (e.g., schema-based, behaviour-based, etc.) with support for decentralized, asynchronous and parallel processing with libraries for implementing soft computing algorithms (neural networks, fuzzy logic, fuzzy cognitive maps, etc.).
- AmonI - Artificial Models of Natural Intelligence provides resources for Behavior Oriented Design (BOD), POSH Action Selection, and more. Behaviour oriented design is a methodology for developing intelligent systems. It extends object oriented design to the special problems of proactive systems, including real-time systems for dynamic environments.
- BECCA (Brain-Emulating Cognition and Control Architecture) An Open-source Artificial General Intelligence Platform.
- The CLARION Cognitive Architecture Project; Ron Sun's cognitive architecture, characterized by having both symbolic and sub-symbolic and, especially, its focus on the interaction between implicit and explicit knowledge.
- CAST: The CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit is a software toolkit to support the developments of intelligent systems based on a space of possible architecture designs described by the CoSy Architecture Schema (CAS). The CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit (CAST) is a software implementation of this schema designed to allow researchers (primarily in the fields of AI and robotics) to develop instantiations of the schema. The toolkit supports C++ and Java, and provides a communication framework for distributing an instantiation across a network. Its primary scientific purpose is to maintain a separation between a system's architecture and the content of its architecture, allowing one to be varied independently of the other.
- YARP: Yet Another Robot Platform is a thin middleware for humanoid robots (and more). YARP supports building a robot control system as a collection of programs communicating in a peer-to-peer way, with an extensible family of connection types (tcp, udp, multicast, local, MPI, mjpg-over-http, XML/RPC, tcpros, ...) that can be swapped in and out to match your needs. It also supports similarly flexible interfacing with hardware devices. The strategic goal is to increase the longevity of robot software projects.
Teaching Resources
Videos
- Elizabeth Spelke's talk on Core Knowledge of Number and Geometry at the inaugural meeting of euCognition in 2006
- Trailer for The Age of Robots from Massimo Brega
Tutorials
- Tutorial on Embodiment
- Control engineering of autonomous cognitive vehicles - a practical tutorial
- The dynamic neural field approach to cognitive robotics
- Neuronal Dynamics Approaches to Cognitive Robotics
Model Curricula
- euCognition Cognitive Systems Model Curriculum
- University of Skövde MSc in Cognitive Systems Model Curriculum
Courses
- Artificial Cognitive Systems; teaching material for Artificial Cognitive Systems - A Primer, MIT Press, 2014; click here for additional support material.
- Cognitive Computer Vision
- Cognitive Architectures with special emphasis on production system cognitivist cognitive architectures.
Degrees in Cognitive Systems
The following is a sample of the Master-level degrees that are available in cognitive systems.
- University of Birmingham Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics MSc
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (60 ECTS)
- Technical University of Munich Robotics, Cognition, and Intelligence
- University of Warwick M.Sc. in Cognitive Systems
- University of Zurich Master of Science in Informatics: Field of study Multimodal and Cognitive Systems
- Jacobs University, Germany Cognitive Systems and Processes
Example Robots
Please send us your examples! (Use the contact details on the IEEE TC CoRo website.)
