Toward self-aware robots

R Chatila, E Renaudo, M Andries… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Despite major progress in Robotics and AI, robots are still basically “zombies” repeatedly
achieving actions and tasks without understanding what they are doing. Deep-Learning AI …

Affordance equivalences in robotics: a formalism

M Andries, RO Chavez-Garcia, R Chatila… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Automatic knowledge grounding is still an open problem in cognitive robotics. Recent
research in developmental robotics suggests that a robot's interaction with its environment is …

A deep probabilistic framework for heterogeneous self-supervised learning of affordances

A Dehban, L Jamone, AR Kampff… - 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The perception of affordances provides an action-centered parametric representation of the
environment. By perceiving an object's visual features in terms of what actions they afford …

On Affordances and their Entailment for Autonomous Robotic Systems

M Andries, L Jamone, JH Piater… - The Modern Legacy of …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
In robotics, affordances are used as a theoretical framework for guiding a robot's interaction
with the objects within its environment. In particular, affordances are formalized in order to …

Action Generation Adapted to Low-Level and High-Level Robot-Object Interaction States

C Maestre, G Mukhtar, C Gonzales… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Our daily environments are complex, composed of objects with different features. These
features can be categorized into low-level features, eg, an object position or temperature …

Open-Ended Affordance Discovery in Robotics Using Pertinent Visual Features

P Luce-Vayrac - 2019 - theses.hal.science
Scene understanding is a challenging problem in computer vision and robotics. It is
traditionally addressed as an observation only process, in which the robot acquires data on …