?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Perceptual+grounding+in+robots&rft.creator=Vogt%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Robotics&rft.description=This+paper+reports+on+an+experiment+in+which+robotic+agents+are+able+to+ground+objects+in+their+environment+using+low-level+sensors.+The+reported+experiment+is+part+of+a+larger+experiment%2C+in+which+autonomous+agents+ground+an+adaptive+language+through+self-organization.+Grounding+is+achieved+by+the+implementation+of+the+hypothesis+that+meaning+can+be+created+using+mechanisms+like+feature+generation+and+self-organization.+The+experiments+were+carried+out+to+investigate+how+agents+may+construct+features+in+order+to+learn+to+discriminate+objects+from+each+other.+Meaning+is+formed+to+give+semantic+value+to+the+language%2C+which+is+also+created+by+the+agents+in+the+same+experiments.+From+the+experimental+results+we+can+conclude+that+the+robots+are+able+to+ground+meaning+in+this+self-organizing+manner.+This+paper+focuses+on+the+meaning+creation+and+will+only+discuss+the+language+formation+very+briefly.+The+paper+sketches+the+tested+hypothesis%2C+the+experimental+set-up+and+experimental+results.&rft.publisher=Springer-Verlag&rft.contributor=Birk%2C+Andreas&rft.contributor=Demiris%2C+John&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F479%2F2%2Fground.ps&rft.identifier=++Vogt%2C+Paul++(1997)+Perceptual+grounding+in+robots.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F479%2F