Developing Early Senses About the World: “Object Permanence” and Visuoauditory Real-time Learning
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@MISC{Weng_developingearly,
author = {Juyang Weng and et al.},
title = {Developing Early Senses About the World: “Object Permanence” and Visuoauditory Real-time Learning},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
What “constraints” are exactly wired into the human developmental program? What “constraints ” are minimally necessary for a developmental robot? These are open questions. In this paper, we propose a mechanism of developing experiencebased priming – predicting the future contexts including sensation and action based on the previous experience – as a powerful “constraint” for developmental robots. We present an architecture that develops this priming capability through realtime online interactions with the environment. We report how our SAIL robot developed a sense of novelty in a well-known “drawbridge ” experiment which sheds light on the controversial issue of “Object Permanence ” in psychology. We further show how the proposed priming mechanism enabled SAIL to deal with a very challenging online learning setting: learning the name and property (e.g., size) of dynamically rotating objects through
