Metrics of Sensory Motor Coordination and Integration in Robots and Animals
How to Measure the Success of Bioinspired Solutions with Respect to their Natural Models, and Against More ‘Artificial’ Solutions?
Editors: Bonsignorio, F., Messina, E., del Pobil, A.P., Hallam, J. (Eds.)
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This book focuses on a critical issue in the study of physical agents, whether natural or artificial: the quantitative modelling of sensory–motor coordination.
Adopting a novel approach, it defines a common scientific framework for both the intelligent systems designed by engineers and those that have evolved naturally. As such it contributes to the widespread adoption of a rigorous quantitative and refutable approach in the scientific study of ‘embodied’ intelligence and cognition. More than 70 years after Norbert Wiener’s famous book Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), robotics, AI and life sciences seem to be converging towards a common model of what we can call the ‘science of embodied intelligent/cognitive agents’. This book is interesting for an interdisciplinary community of researchers, technologists and entrepreneurs working at the frontiers of robotics and AI, neuroscience and general life and brain sciences.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Quantitative Measurements of Octopus vulgaris Arms for Bioinspired Soft Robotics
Pages 3-14
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Formal Specification of Robotic Architectures for Experimental Robotics
Pages 15-37
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Application and Exploration of Sensorimotor Coordination Strategies in Surgical Robotics
Pages 41-71
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Benchmarking in Developmental Robotics
Pages 73-86
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Entropy Based Metrics of Sensory Motor Coordination
Pages 89-110
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Metrics of Sensory Motor Coordination and Integration in Robots and Animals
- Book Subtitle
- How to Measure the Success of Bioinspired Solutions with Respect to their Natural Models, and Against More ‘Artificial’ Solutions?
- Editors
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- Fabio Bonsignorio
- Elena Messina
- Angel P. del Pobil
- John Hallam
- Series Title
- Cognitive Systems Monographs
- Series Volume
- 36
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-14126-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-14126-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-14124-0
- Series ISSN
- 1867-4925
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVIII, 186
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
- Topics