Cognitive Robotics

492 Pages·2022·23.117 MB·English

by  Angelo Cangelosi, Minoru Asada (eds.)

Cognitive Robotics
Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents
Edited by Ronald C. Arkin
A complete list of the books in the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
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Cognitive Robotics
Edited by Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cangelosi, Angelo, 1967– editor. | Asada, Minoru, editor.
Title: Cognitive robotics / edited by Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada.
Other titles: Cognitive robotics (M.I.T. Press)
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022] | Series: Intelligent robotics and
autonomous agents series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021031320 | ISBN 9780262046831 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Autonomous robots.
Classification: LCC TJ211.35 .C628 2022 | DDC 629.8/92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021031320
To Stella and Virginia (AC)
To the memory of my beloved son Ryu, and to Jin and Yuko (MA)

Contents
Preface ix
Acknowl edgments xi
I DEFINITION AND APPROACHES
1 What Is Cognitive Robotics? 3
Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada
2 Neurorobotics: Neuroscience and Robots 19
Tiffany J. Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar
3 Developmental Robotics 41
Minoru Asada and Angelo Cangelosi
4 Evolutionary Robotics 59
Stefano Nolfi
5 Swarm Robotics 77
Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Marco Dorigo,
and Heiko Hamann
6 Soft Robotics: A Developmental Approach 99
Luca Scimeca and Fumiya Iida
II METHODS AND CONCEPTS
7 Robot Platforms and Simulators 123
Diego Ferigo, Alberto Parmiggiani, Elena Rampone, Vadim Tikhanoff,
Silvio Traversaro, Daniele Pucci, and Lorenzo Natale
8 Biomimetic Skin 145
Markellos Ntagios, Oliver Ozioko, and Ravinder Dahiya
9 Machine Learning for Cognitive Robotics 165
Tetsuya Ogata, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Tatsuro Yamada, Shingo Murata,
and Kazuma Sasaki
viii Contents
10 Cognitive Architectures 191
David Vernon
11 Embodiment in Cognitive Science and Robotics 213
Tom Ziemke
12 Ethics of Robotics 231
Vincent C. Müller
III BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES
13 Intrinsic Motivations for Open- Ended Learning 251
Gianluca Baldassarre
14 Princip les of Cognitive Vision 271
Yiannis Aloimonos and Giulio Sandini
15 Cognitive Robot Navigation 295
Jiru Wang, Jianxin Peng, Rui Yan, and Huajin Tang
16 Cognitive Robot Manipulation 315
Yiming Jiang and Chenguang Yang
17 Cognitive Control for Decision and Human- Robot Collaboration 337
Erwin Jose Lopez Pulgarin, Ute Leonards, and Guido Herrmann
18 Social Cognition 361
Yukie Nagai
19 Human- Robot Interaction 379
Tony Belpaeme
20 Language and Communication 395
Angelo Cangelosi and Tetsuya Ogata
21 Knowledge Repre sen ta tion and Reasoning 413
Michael Beetz
22 Abstract Concepts 433
Alessandro Di Nuovo
23 Robots and Machine Consciousness 453
Antonio Chella
Contributors 475
Index 477