creators_name: Grupen, Roderic A. editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Bullock, Daniel editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2004-02-12 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:27 metadata_visibility: show title: A Developmental Organization for Robot Behavior ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: developmental assembler, sequential knowledge gathering, physical schemata, robot behavioral representation abstract: This paper focuses on exploring how learning and development can be structured in synthetic (robot) systems. We present a developmental assembler for constructing reusable and temporally extended actions in a sequence. The discussion adopts the traditions of dynamic pattern theory in which behavior is an artifact of coupled dynamical systems with a number of controllable degrees of freedom. In our model, the events that delineate control decisions are derived from the pattern of (dis)equilibria on a working subset of sensorimotor policies. We show how this architecture can be used to accomplish sequential knowledge gathering and representation tasks and provide examples of the kind of developmental milestones that this approach has already produced in our lab. date: 2003 date_type: published volume: 101 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 25-36 refereed: TRUE citation: Grupen, Roderic A. (2003) A Developmental Organization for Robot Behavior. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3366/1/Grupen.pdf