Towards Attentive Robots

Towards attentive robots

This paper introduces Attentive Robots: robots that attend to the parts of their sensory input that are currently of most potential interest. The concept of selecting the most promising parts is adopted from human perception where selective attention allocates the brain resources to the most interesting parts of the sensory input. We give an overview of current approaches to integrate computati...

Attentive Robots

Selective attention is a useful concept for human perception — this was elaborated in the previous chapters of this book. But why is it of interest also to machines, especially to robots? The reason is that robots share many requirements with humans: First, robots have to use limited processing resources to process an overwhelming amount of perceptual input. While humans have their senses which...

Computational Attention: Towards attentive computers

Towards Developing Attentive Wireless Sensor Networks

The large, rapidly growing field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) offers the ability to collect and process massive amounts of information from various environments. This distributed data gathering and computation with the help of tiny, power-limited devices enables their use in surveillance, target detection and various other monitoring applications. In this context, the role of a sensor net...

Towards efficient biped robots

This paper presents the energy analysis of a bipedal walking system. The main goal is to understand the movement strategies in walking and to search for the optimal locomotion variables that minimise a cost function related to energy. Three different indices are proposed: mean absolute power, mean power dispersion and mean power lost. In order to accomplish this goal, in the description and ana...