Biologically Inspired Robotics:- The Legacy of W. Grey Walter Overview of the HP Sponsored Workshop, Bristol, Aug.2002

Biologically Inspired Robotics:-The Legacy of W. Grey Walter

Overview of the HP Sponsored Workshop, Bristol, Aug.2002

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Grey Walter, 1915-1977


Grey Walter : The Turtles


Robot Turtle Navigation


Invited Speakers Owen Holland (University of Essex)

- History of Grey Walter Michael Arbib (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

- Neuroethology of language evolution Luc Steels (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris)

- Language, representations, situated games Randall Beer (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)

- Modelling intelligence Gerald Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla)

- Brain based animats Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich)

- The role of animat morphology in adaptive behaviour Mandyam Srinivasan (Australian National University, Canberra)

- Insect vision & neural nets Rodney Brooks (MIT, Boston)

- History and future


Michael ArbibA computational Neuroethology of Language Evolution

Seeks to understand real neuronalmechanisms incrementally:

Spatial navigationHippocampus

Rapid eye movements to visual

targets & graspingParietal & frontal cortex, mirror system

Language ready brains


Luc SteelsEvolving and sharing representations through situated language games

Focuses on external representations- language drawings, gestures

Establishes communication system- by exchanging symbolic representations


Randall BeerFrictionless Brains

Simpler ‘idealised models’


Randall BeerFrictionless Brains

Look at dynamics of relationship between adjacent sub-models

What happens if we add X to the simple model

EnvironmentBody

Nervous System


Mandyam SrinivasanSmall brains, smart minds: Insect vision, navigation, and possible robotics apps.


Mandyam SrinivasanSmall brains, smart minds: Insect vision, navigation, and possible robotics apps


Gerald EdelmanMachine Psychology: Autonomous behaviour, perceptual categorisation and conditioning in a brain-base device

“The Brain is not a turing machine”

“The world is not like a piece of tape and it is ambiguous”

“If there is an algebra of the brain, it relies largely on motion”






Rolf PfeiferOn the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of adaptive behaviour








Rodney BrooksPast, present and future






Rodney BrooksPast, present and future issues

Manipulators

Real Vision

Limits of current tools Warren Smith

Other features of biological systems Metabolism


Bio-inspired solutions for locomotion in the gastrointestinal tract: background & perspectivesA. Mencaisii, C. Stefanini, G. La Spinda, P. Dario


Bio-inspired solutions for locomotion in the gastrointestinal tract: background & perspectivesA. Mencaisii, C. Stefanini, G. La Spinda, P. Dario


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Biologically Inspired Robotics:- The Legacy of W. Grey Walter Overview of the HP Sponsored Workshop, Bristol, Aug.2002