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Concepts and Objectives
Concept of EMICAB
We believe that taking advantage of brain-like control strategies in technological applications requires a matching triplet of body morphology, compliant actuators and rich, distributed sensory systems.
EMICAB aims at exploiting such a matching triplet in order to solve a key issue of artificial cognitive systems: the intimate relation of the body and the brain. With this aim in mind, EMICAB attempts to integrate smart body mechanics in intelligent control of motor behaviour to show the emergence of cognitive capabilities.
Core aspects are:
- The implementation of an internal body representation in form of a manipulable body model will provide the heart of the behavioural control algorithm.
- The highly distributed, multi-modal sensory infrastructure will allow the internal representation to be sufficiently close to the real-world situation and, hence, to be manipulated within a kind of mental reality.
- The bionic design of compliant actuators, joint controllers and skeletal structures will exploit multiple sources of elasticity for robust, distributed control of a large number of degrees of freedom.
Objectives of EMICAB
- Install an autonomous, cognitive system that can apply an internal body representation for motor planning and decision making.
- Augment, adapt and improve the robot body by a wide range of peripheral embedded sensors, by bionic skeletal structures, and by head-mounted sensory systems.
- Transfer knowledge on context-dependent control of insect motor behaviour to engineering.
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