Towards an integrated robot with multiple cognitive functions

Abstract

We present integration mechanisms for combining het-erogeneous components in a situated information pro-cessing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a human and display some understand-ing of its surroundings. These mechanisms include an architectural schema that encourages parallel and incre-mental information processing, and a method for bind-ing information from distinct representations that when faced with rapid change in the world can maintain a co-herent, though distributed, view of it. Provisional re-sults are demonstrated in a robot combining vision, ma-nipulation, language, planning and reasoning capabili-ties interacting with a human and manipulable objects.