Fourth International Workshop onon Epigenetic Robotics--论文代写范文精选

希望机器人成为脑科学的新工具，类似于仿真和建模的研究。我们社会一直在演变,邀请了四个神经学家和机器人专家主题讲座。下面的paper代写范文继续进行详述。

Introduction
As in the previous editions, this workshop is trying to be a forum for multi-disciplinary research ranging from developmental psychology to neural sciences (in its widest sense) and robotics including computational studies. This is a two-fold aim of, on the one hand, understanding the brain through engineering embodied systems and, on the other hand, building artificial epigenetic systems. Epigenetic contains in its meaning the idea that we are interested in studying development through interaction with the environment. This idea entails the embodiment of the system, the situatedness in the environment, and of course a prolonged period of postnatal development when this interaction can actually take place. This is still a relatively new endeavor although the seeds of the developmental robotics community were already in the air since the nineties (Berthouze and Kuniyoshi, 1998; Metta et al., 1999; Brooks et al., 1999; Breazeal, 2000; Kozima and Zlatev, 2000).

A few had the intuition – see Lungarella et al. (2003) for a comprehensive review – that, intelligence could not be possibly engineered simply by copying systems that are “ready made” but rather that the development of the system fills a major role. This integration of disciplines raises the important issue of learning on the multiple scales of developmental time, that is, how to build systems that eventually can learn in any environment rather than program them for a specific environment. On the other hand, the hope is that robotics might become a new tool for brain science similarly to what simulation and modeling have become for the study of the motor system. Our community is still pretty much evolving and “under construction” and for this reason, we tried to encourage submissions from the psychology community. Additionally, we invited four neuroscientists and no roboticists for the keynote lectures. We received a record number of submissions (more than 50), and given the overall size and duration of the workshop together with our desire to maintain a single-track format, we had to be more selective than ever in the review process (a 20% acceptance rate on full papers). This is, if not an index of quality, at least an index of the interest that gravitates around this still new discipline.

Invited speakers
In a very insightful contribution, Nadel focuses on the key role of imitation in the development of a sense of agency – a sense of being the owner of one’s own action. In particular, she discusses how shared motor representations (i.e., between action generation, action simulation, actino recognition, and action imitation) relate to neonatal imitation. Remarking that early imitation is already selective of human action (an idea reminiscent of Gergely’s keynote in last year’s workshop), she puts forward two important perceptual-motor couplings: perceptual-motor couplings as primitives of imitation, and perceptualmotor couplings as results of being imitated. These would lead to two classes of perceptions – perceptions resulting from one’s own actions, and perceptions that one cannot modify – which Russell (1996) hypothesized as being at the origin of the sense of agency.

Reciprocal imitation – when infant and mother reciprocate imitation – is found to start early after birth, and may contribute to fill the seemingly huge gap between recognizing actions, and coding messages with communicative intent. In fact, experiments with autistic children show that repeated imitative sessions improve imitation, recognition of being imitated, and non verbal communication. Because robots possibly meet what autistic children can accept as social environment, robotic systems such as Robota could be used to stimulate their perceptionaction couplings, and may eventually lead them toward acceptance of human presence and further social use of imitation.

Conclusions
Two main observations can be made from this year’s contributions:
Issues discussed in one workshop are being revisited/re-analyzed (e.g., object permanence, joint attention, contingency, motor learning, information theoretic approach to sensory processing) perhaps indicating that this community has come to agree on some critical issues.

Some studies are truly capturing the essence of what epigenetic robotics is about, with models being explicitly compared with human data in more than just superficial ways (Balkenius, Chen, Prince, etc.). We certainly hope this trend will confirm in the future year and we will certainly try to encourage it as much as possible. In closing, we thank the National Institute of Communication Technology (NICT) of Japan for their generous support of this workshop. Genova University has been a patient local sponsor through the process of arranging this workshop. We also thank the program committee members for their efforts in reviewing submissions.

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