Integrating Cognition, Emotion and Autonomy

The ICEA project will develop the first cognitive system architecture integrating cognition and emotion to provide autonomy (at a first stage only bioregulation and self-maintainance), based on the architecture and physiology of the mammalian brain.

Humanoids that Learn Socio-Communicative Skills by Observation

This is a project funded by the European Commission Framework Program 7 in the Cognitive systems, Interaction and Robotics domain.

The objective of the HUMANOBS project is to develop a new cognitive architectural principles to allow intelligent agents to learn socio-communicative skills by observing and imitating people.

We have three main objectives, all of which derive directly from the above. They are to build an auto-reconfiguring architecture, behavior observation mechanisms and behavior generation and coordination mechanisms:

• Auto-Reconfiguring Architecture - The ability to learn complex new skills on top of old ones brings new requirements on the underlying architecture: it must be able to reorganize its internal agency while displaying robustness and resilience, and this constitutes our first scientific objective
• Observation Mechanisms - To build a system that can auto-generate specifications for skills and behaviors based on their observation.
• Behavior Generation and Coordination Mechanisms - To build behavior generation and coordination mechanisms for the reproduction and reuse of observed skills.

ASys Project

One of the main threads of ASLab research is the development of technology for Autonomous Systems Engineering. This means many things, from core platform technology to designs of intelligent autonomous systems and support methodologies.

Synthetically stated, the purpose of the ASys Long Term Project is the creation of science and technology for the construction of high autonomy systems.