Cognitive Primitives for Mobile Robots.

Abstract

Tekkotsu (see www.Tekkotsu.org) is an application de-velopment framework for the Sony AIBO mobile robot that endeavors to provide an intuitive set of primitives for per-ception, manipulation, and attentional control, drawing on in-sights from cognitive science. The framework also addresses some of the human-robot interaction problems faced by mo-bile robot application developers. www.Tekkotsu.org Recent work: Perception Tekkotsu provides a “dual coding ” (iconic and symbolic) representation of images. The term comes from Paivio’s “dual coding theory ” of mental representations, which posits parallel verbal and non-verbal (i.e., imagistic) systems with extensive referential connectionst between them (Paivio