creators_name: Gomez, Gabriel
creators_name: Lungarella, Max
creators_name: Eggenberger Hotz, Peter
creators_name: Matsushita, Kojiro
creators_name: Pfeifer, Rolf
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Prince, Christopher G.
editors_name: Sandini, Giulio
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Metta, Giorgio
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-04-14
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50
metadata_visibility: show
title: Simulating development in a real robot: on the concurrent increase of sensory, motor, and neural complexity
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets
subjects: comp-sci-robot
full_text_status: public
keywords: visual foveation, robotic hand, developmental progression, neural networks
abstract: We present a quantitative investigation on the effects of a discrete developmental progression on the acquisition of a foveation behavior by a robotic hand-arm-eyes system. Development is simulated by (a) increasing the resolution of visual and tactile systems, (b) freezing and freeing mechanical degrees of freedom, and (c) adding neuronal units to the neural control architecture. Our experimental results show that a system starting with a low-resolution sensory system, a low precision motor system, and a low complexity neural structure, learns faster that a system which is more complex at the beginning.
date: 2004
date_type: published
volume: 117
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 119-122
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Gomez, Gabriel and Lungarella, Max and Eggenberger Hotz, Peter and Matsushita, Kojiro and Pfeifer, Rolf  (2004) Simulating development in a real robot: on the concurrent increase of sensory, motor, and neural complexity.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4064/1/gomez.pdf