Self-understanding and self-extension: a systems and representational approach

Wyatt, Aydemir, Brenner, ....

Abstract:

There are many different approaches to building a system that can engage in autonomous mental development. In this paper we present an approach based on what we term self-understanding, by which we mean the use of explicit representation of and reasoning about what a system does and doesn't know, and how that understanding changes under action. We present a coherent architecture and a set of representations used in two robot systems that exhibit a limited degree of autonomous mental development, what we term self-extension. The contributions include: representations of gaps and uncertainty for specific kinds of knowledge, and a motivational and planning system for setting and achieving learning goals.

BibTeX Entry:

@article{Wyatt2010-tamd,
  author = {Wyatt, Jeremy L and Aydemir, Alper and Brenner, Michael and Hanheide,
	Marc and Hawes, Nick and Jensfelt, Patric and Kristan, Matej and
	Kruijff, Geert-Jan M and Lison, Pierre and Pronobis, Andrzej and
	Sj\"{o}\"{o}, Kristoffer and Vre\v{c}ko, Danijel Sko\v{c}aj Alen
	and Zender, Hendrik and Zillich, Michael},
  title = {Self-understanding and self-extension: a systems and representational
	approach},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {2},
  pages = {282--303},
  number = {4},
  month = dec  doi = {10.1109/TAMD.2010.2090149}
}

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