%A Pierre Andry
%A Philippe Gaussier
%A Jacqueline Nadel
%A Michele Courant
%T A Developmental Approach for low-level Imitations
%X Historically, a lot of authors in psychology and in
robotics tend to separate "true imitation" and its
related high-level mechanisms which seem to be exclusive to human adult, from low-level imitations or
"mimicries" observed on babies or primates. Closely,
classical researches suppose that an imitative artificial system must be able to build a model of
the demonstrator's geometry, in order to reproduce finely the movements on each joints. Conversely, we
will advocate that if imitation is viewed as a part of a
developmental course, then (1) an artificial developing system does not need to build any internal model
of the other, to perform real-time and low-level imitations of human movements despite the related correspondence problem between man and robot and,
(2) a simple sensory-motor loop could be at the basis
of multiples heterogeneous imitative behaviors often
explained in the literature by different models.
%K imitative artificial system, developing system, self-organizing map, robotic movement control
%P 157-158
%E Christopher G. Prince
%E Luc Berthouze
%E Hideki Kozima
%E Daniel Bullock
%E Georgi Stojanov
%E Christian Balkenius
%V 101
%D 2003
%I Lund University Cognitive Studies
%L cogprints3343

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