A Bottom-Up Integration of Vision and Actions To Create Cognitive Humanoids

Abstract

I n recent years more and more complex humanoid robots have been devel-oped. On the other hand programming these systems has become more 191difficult. There is a clear need for such robots to be able to adapt and perform certain tasks autonomously, or even learn by themselves how to act. An important issue to tackle is the closing of the sensorimotor loop. Especially when talking about humanoids the tight integration of perception with actions will allow for improved behaviours, embedding adaptation on the lower-level of the system.