Report on Cognitive Architectures

This paper discusses our views on the future of the field of cognitive architectures, and how the scientific questions that define it should be addressed. We also report on a set of requirements, and a related architecture design, that we are currently investigating as part of the CoSy project. An Architecture Schema for Embodied Cognitive Systems Nick Hawes, Jeremy Wyatt and Aaron Sloman For future submission. Abstract. This paper presents an architecture schema which inherits some of the ambitions of classic cognitive architectures (such as modelling and understanding information flow and control), and of robot control architectures (such as producing robust, reliable behaviour in the real world). An architecture schema is a task and implementation independent set of rules for structuring processing components and information, and controlling information flow, which can be instantiated to create designs specific to a particular set of tasks or scenarios. The design of the schema is based on requirements produced from the analysis of a limited set of CoSy-related scenarios, and the functionality provided to instantiations of the schema is therefore limited to that which is required for these scenarios. This paper presents an architecture schema which inherits some of the ambitions of classic cognitive architectures (such as modelling and understanding information flow and control), and of robot control architectures (such as producing robust, reliable behaviour in the real world). An architecture schema is a task and implementation independent set of rules for structuring processing components and information, and controlling information flow, which can be instantiated to create designs specific to a particular set of tasks or scenarios. The design of the schema is based on requirements produced from the analysis of a limited set of CoSy-related scenarios, and the functionality provided to instantiations of the schema is therefore limited to that which is required for these scenarios.