Objectif In Cognitive Science, an affordance is a resource or support that the environment offers an agent for action, which the agent can directly perceive and employ. Only rarely has this concept been used in Robotics and AI, although it offers an original perspective on coupling perception, action and reasoning, differing from standard hybrid robot control architectures.Perceiving affordances in the environment means perception as filtered through the individual capabilities for physical action and through the current goals or intentions, thereby coupling perception and action deep down in the control and providing an action-oriented interpretation of percepts in real time. Moreover, affordances provide on a high granularity level a basis for human-robot interaction and for learning or adapting context-dependent, goal-directed action.The MACS project aims at developing affordance-based control as a new architecture paradigm for embedded cognitive systems. To this end, standard control architectures have to be completely redesigned to employ affordances effectively and efficiently in all modules of an affordance-based system. Accordingly, major lines of work in MACS address in the context of affordance-based control the topics of architecture, perception, representation, and learning. An autonomous mobile robot serves as an integrated demonstrator, which uses vision and 3D geometry sensing (3D laser scanner) as its main sensors and has locomotion and a simple manipulation device (2 DOF arm with a magnetic gripper) as bases for physical action.In the course of the project, the physical robot demonstrator as well as its simulation will serve as an environment for integrating incremental versions of the software modules under development, providing a permanently available workbench for testing and evaluating versions of the architecture and of its modules. Champ scientifique engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometryengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticssocial sciencespsychologycognitive psychologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Thème(s) IST-2002-2.3.2.4 - Cognitive systems Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinateur FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 MUENCHEN Allemagne Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (5) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH Autriche Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse STEYRERGASSE 17 8010 GRAZ Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée LINKOEPINGS UNIVERSITET Suède Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse CAMPUS VALLA 581 83 LINKOEPING Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Turquie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse INONU BULVARI, CAMPUS 06531 ANKARA Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée OESTERREICHISCHE STUDIENGESELLSCHAFT FUER KYBERNETIK Autriche Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse FREYUNG 6/6/7 1010 WIEN Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée UNIVERSITAET OSNABRUECK Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse NEUER GRABEN/SCHLOSS 49069 OSNABRUECK Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée