This book focuses on a critical issue in the study of physical agents, whether natural or artificial: the quantitative modelling of sensory–motor coordination.
Adopting a novel approach, it defines a common scientific framework for both the intelligent systems designed by engineers and those that have evolved naturally. As such it contributes to the widespread adoption of a rigorous quantitative and refutable approach in the scientific study of ‘embodied’ intelligence and cognition
More than 70 years after Norbert Wiener’s famous book Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), robotics, AI and life sciences seem to be converging towards a common model of what we can call the ‘science of embodied intelligent/cognitive agents’.
This book is interesting for an interdisciplinary community of researchers, technologists and entrepreneurs working at the frontiers of robotics and AI, neuroscience and general life and brain sciences.
Employs a broad interdisciplinary approach to treat relevant issues related to the metrics of sensory motor integration in robots and animals
Provides an insightful panorama of the ongoing work, with the intent to inspire further research
Lays foundations of a replicable robotics research publishing thread based on the publication of fully replicable experiments
Contributors are leading researcher in biomimetics growing areas of interdisciplinary research
Fabio Bonsignorio
Bioinspiration Biomimetics Cognitive Systems Sensory Motor Integration Sensory Motor Integration in Robots and Animals