Obiettivo 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. Campo scientifico engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometryengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticssocial sciencespsychologycognitive psychologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics Programma(i) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Argomento(i) IST-2002-2.3.2.4 - Cognitive systems Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinatore FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 MUENCHEN Germania Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (5) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH Austria Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo STEYRERGASSE 17 8010 GRAZ Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato LINKOEPINGS UNIVERSITET Svezia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo CAMPUS VALLA 581 83 LINKOEPING Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Turchia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo INONU BULVARI, CAMPUS 06531 ANKARA Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato OESTERREICHISCHE STUDIENGESELLSCHAFT FUER KYBERNETIK Austria Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo FREYUNG 6/6/7 1010 WIEN Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato UNIVERSITAET OSNABRUECK Germania Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo NEUER GRABEN/SCHLOSS 49069 OSNABRUECK Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato