Paolo Arena - Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots

This volume collects the most significant results of the European research Project called SPARK whose aim was to develop new cognitive architectures and new sensing-perceiving-moving artefacts, inspired by the basic principles of living systems and based on the concept of self-organization in complex systems generating spatial temporal patterns. The book is organized in three parts. Part I Principles of insect perception reports a thorough survey of the state of the art in perception for action. The central Part II Cognitive Models describes new approaches to attain high cognitive capabilities in roving robots, for which detailed Structures are still lacking, even referring to insect brain. Some of the models introduced rely on the insect-inspired parallel sensory-motor pathways, others exploit the emergence Spatial-temporal Patterns (used as perceptual states) arising in non linear Reaction-Diffusion Equations, some others build upon the neural networks modelling Stick Insect locomotion. The last part of the book Part III Software/Hardware cognitive architecture and experiments is related to the implementation of the proposed cognitive models on a software /hardware FPGA-based architecture embedded on wheeled and legged robots.

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