Project description IST-2004-2.3.4.1 b7 Show the project objective Hide the project objective The overall objective of the proposed project is to develop an embodied cognitive agent, which is able to conduct experiments in the real world with the purpose of gaining new insights about the world and the objects therein and to develop and improve its own cognitive skills and overall performance. It is obvious that for the ability to conduct experiments in the real world, embodiment is a fundamental prerequisite.Expected results of the project are basic models, techniques, and system solutions, enabling an embodied agent to autonomously design and conduct experiments in a given context - stimulating the agent's desire to gather new knowledge - and to extract new insights from the results of the experiment.XPERO proposes to approach this problem by developing a methodology for learning by experimentation. Enabling an embodied agent, in the sequel called robot, to design and conduct experiments in a natural real world setting and to extract new insights is more than just adding another feature to a technical system. The ability to conduct experiments in the real world and extract new knowledge and insights pushes open the door to a new quality of embodied systems namely to potentially unlimited autonomous learning. This ability enables the robot to grow in an unlimited fashion its cognitive capacity and its performance to accomplish meaningful tasks in the real world. Limitations are only set by the surrounding world and its own physical capabilities, and not by availability of a programmer, teacher or learning material. We plan to achieve this objective by performing research and development in the following areas Stimulation of Experiment, Design and Execution of Experiments, Observation and Evaluation of Experiments, Representing Knowledge and Gaining Insights, and Engineering the Experimental Loop. Fields of science social scienceseducational sciencesdidactics 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-2004-2.3.4.1 b7 - IST-2004-2.3.4.1.b7 FET open Call for proposal FP6-2002-IST-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg EU contribution € 771 505,00 Address Grantham-Allee 20 D-53757 Sankt Augustin Germany See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN Austria EU contribution € 413 544,00 Address KARLSPLATZ 13 1040 WIEN See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V Participation ended Germany EU contribution € 46 925,00 Address HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 MUENCHEN See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS France EU contribution € 267 372,00 Address 102 RUE ST DOMINIQUE 75007 PARIS See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA Italy EU contribution € 379 364,00 Address VIA DELL' ARTIGLIERE 8 37129 VERONA See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data ST'S CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE Participation ended North Macedonia EU contribution € 0,00 Address RUDJER BOSKOVIC 16 1000 SKOPJE See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI Slovenia EU contribution € 321 290,00 Address KONGRESNI TRG 12 1000 LJUBLJANA See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data
