Title

Implementing Spatial Awareness In An Environment-Agnostic Agent

Keywords

Autonomous learning; Cognitive development; Object persistence; Spatial awareness

Abstract

We designed an autonomous agent that discovers, learns, and exploits basic spatial regularities of interaction with its environment. To do so, we propose implementing a persistence memory system that records bundles of "possibilities of interaction " afforded by objects in the environment, coupled with a local space memory system that represents the agents surrounding local space (inspired by the vertebrates tectum). An experiment in a simple simulated environment demonstrates how the agent performs multimodal integration of sensory stimuli, and allocates the origin of such stimuli to "phenomena " located in the external spatial environment. Such mechanisms open the way to implementing agents with minimal preconception of their environment, and to modeling intrinsic motivation in autonomous agents.

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

21st Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2012, BRiMS 2012

Number of Pages

59-66

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84872455592 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84872455592

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