Abstract
It is essential for the autonomous robots in the real world, filled with enormous amount of information, to catch only the useful and related information to their actions. Affordance would be one of the key-concept to be realized in the autonomous robots to make them able to perceive such useful information. This paper, therefore, tries to realize Affordance in an autonomous robot by introducing Inner Perceptual Model (IPM) as a field that will make the sensory inputs as a Grounded Symbol. An attempt to realize an emergent mechanism of Affordance is carried out by means of IPM, Active Sensing System, and Information Processing System. Four necessary-conditions to be satisfied are introduced to clarify whether the Perceptual Pattern in IPM could be the grounded inner representation of the environment. Computer simulations show the possibility that IPM would be an inner representation of the environment as Grounded Symbols. Moreover, the computer simulation shows possibility that proposed mechanism can distinguish the environment consists of the other robots from those consists of the obstacles. As a conclusion, we come to a hypothesis that the available action set recollected from observed sensory inputs corresponds to Affordance, and Affordance for robot.
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Hakura, J., Yokoi, H., Kakazu, Y. (1996). Affordance in Autonomous Robot. In: Asama, H., Fukuda, T., Arai, T., Endo, I. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66942-5_15
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