Objective The ICEA project will develop the first cognitive systems architecture integrating cognition, emotion and autonomy (bioregulation and self-maintenance), based on the architecture and physiology of the mammalian brain. A key hypothesis is that emotional and autonomic mechanisms play a critical role in structuring the high-level thought processes of living cognitive systems like ourselves. The robots developed will perceive and act in the real world, learn from that interaction developing situated knowledge (representations of their environments in spatial, emotional and behavioural terms), and use this knowledge in anticipation, planning and decision-making.The brain and behaviour of the rat will be an important starting point because of the large scientific literature available for this species. Rat cognition will be studied and emulated both through an ambitious program of empirical studies in real animals and through computational modelling, at different levels of abstraction, on several, real and simulated, robot platforms. The project will develop two central, integrated platforms, rat-like in appearance, perceptual, and behavioural capacities. First, a robot, ICEAbot, equipped with multimodal sensory systems will serve as a real-world testbed and demonstrator of the cognitive capacities derived from models of rat biology.Second, a 3-D robot simulator, ICEAsim, based on the physical ICEAbot, but also offering richer opportunities for experimentation, will demonstrate the potential of the ICEA architecture to go beyond the rat model and support cognitive capacities such as abstraction, feelings, imagination, and planning. This second platform will be made freely available to the research community as a potential standard research tool. Fields of science medical and health sciencesbasic medicinephysiology Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.8 - Cognitive Systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme IP - Integrated Project Coordinator HOGSKOLAN I SKOVDE Address Hogskolevagen 1 54 128 Skovde Sweden See on map EU contribution No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BAE SYSTEMS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Warwick house, farnborough aerospace centre GU14 6YU Farnborough See on map Other funding No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3, rue michel-ange 75794 Paris cedex 16 See on map Other funding No data CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Piazzale aldo moro 7 00185 Roma See on map Other funding No data CYBERBOTICS SARL Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Chemin du vuasset 1028 Preverenges See on map Other funding No data MTA KFKI RESZECSKE- ES MAGFIZIKAI KUTATOINTEZET Hungary EU contribution € 0,00 Address Konkoly thege miklos utca 29-33 1121 Budapest See on map Other funding No data THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Firth court, western bank S10 2TN Sheffield See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenida ramiro de maeztu 7 28040 Madrid See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITE PARIS VI PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Tour centrale 21eme etage - 4 pl jussieu 75252 Paris cedex 05 See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Coldharbour lane BS16 1QY Bristol See on map Other funding No data
