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Completed research project

Title / Titel The dynamics of categorization: exploiting the autonomous agents paradigm
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Summary / Zusammenfassung The goal of this project is to apply the New AI (autonomous agent) approach to psychological modeling in the area of categorization. The focus during the current period has been (a) on bringing the methodology of autonomous agents closer together with empirical research in psychology, and (b) to increase the level of complexity of the previous series of experiments.
1. A systematic first exploration of applying the autonomous agent methodology to categorization has been performed. A PhD pertinent thesis (funded by this project) has been completed (Title: Embodied categorization by Christian Scheier).
2. Two case studies illustrating the methodology of joining empirical psychological research and the autonomous agent methodologies have been performed during this period: The "A not B" problem, and Logan's model for learning categorization behaviors.
3. A robot platform, the SAMURAI, with improved sensory-motor complexity has been developed and preliminary experiments have been made. SAMURAI has a 3 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) arm (with 1 DOF gripper), a 2 DOF vision system and a number of other sensors (infrared, collision, touch).
4. An international cooperation in which this project will be the coordinating partner is currently being set up.
Publications / Publikationen Pfeifer, R., and Scheier, C. (1997a). Sensory-motor coordination: the metaphor and beyond. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 20, 157-178.

Pfeifer, R., and Scheier, C. (1998a). Representation in natural and artificial agents: a perspective from emb

Pfeifer, R. and Scheier, C. (in press). Understanding intelligence. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

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Project leadership and contacts /
Projektleitung und Kontakte
Director Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Rolf Pfeifer (Project Leader) pfeifer@ifi.uzh.ch
Dr. phil Hansruedi Frueh frueh@ifi.uzh.ch
Funding source(s) /
Unterstützt durch		 SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung)
Swiss NSF project: The dynamics of categorization 11`50955.97
In collaboration with /
In Zusammenarbeit mit
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Dr. ETL, Tsukuba, Japan Japan

Linda Smith and Esther Thelen, Prof. Dr., Human Infant Motor Development Lab, Indiana USA
Olaf Sporns, Dr. NSI, San Diego, USA

United States

Christoph Zetzsche, Dr., Ins

Pfeifer, R. and Scheier, C. (in press). Understanding intelligence. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Scheier, C., Pfeifer, R., and Kuniyoshi, Y. (1998). Embedded neural networks: exploiting constraints. Neural Networks, 11, 1551-1569 (invited paper).



http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~pfeifer

7. Hansruedi Frueh, Dr. IfI, frueh@ifi.unizh.ch


Christoph Zetzsche, Dr., Institut fuer Medizinische Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany

Germany
Duration of Project / Projektdauer Oct 1997 to Sep 1999
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