Descripción del proyecto
Robots capaces de «pensar» de forma autónoma en situaciones reales
Imagine un robot con un nivel de autonomía tan grande que pueda determinar sus propios objetivos y decidir qué estrategia seguir en situaciones del mundo real. El equipo del proyecto PILLAR-Robots, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrolla una nueva generación de robots capaces de aprovechar la experiencia adquirida durante su vida útil para satisfacer los deseos de sus diseñadores/usuarios humanos en aplicaciones reales. Los investigadores pondrán en funcionamiento el concepto de «propósito», extraído de las ciencias cognitivas, para aumentar la autonomía de los robots y su independencia del dominio durante el aprendizaje autónomo. El objetivo es dotar a los robots de los conocimientos y habilidades necesarios para funcionar en aplicaciones específicas. En el proyecto se utilizará una arquitectura cognitiva intrínsecamente motivada en demostraciones de campo agroalimentarias, de entretenimiento educativo y no estructuradas de carácter industrial o minorista.
Objetivo
PILLAR-Robots aims at developing a new generation of robots endowed with a higher level of autonomy, that are able to determine their own goals and establish their own strategies, creatively building on the experience acquired during their lifetime to fulfil the desires of their human designers/users in real-life application use-cases brought to TRL5. To this end, the project will operationalize the concept of Purpose, drawn from the cognitive sciences, to increase the autonomy and domain independence of robots during autonomous learning and, at the same time, to lead them to acquire knowledge and skills that are actually relevant for operating in target real applications. In particular, the project will develop algorithms for the acquisition of purpose by the robot, ways to bias the perceptual, motivational and decision systems of the robots’ cognitive architectures towards purposes, and strategies for learning representations, skills and models that allow the execution of purpose-related deliberative and reactive decision processes. Given the aim of reaching TRL5, PILLAR-Robots will implement and validate demonstrators of purposeful lifelong open-ended autonomy using the resulting Purposeful Intrinsically Motivated Cognitive Architecture within three different application fields characterized by different types and levels of variability: Agri-food, Edutainment, and unstructured Industrial/retail. PILLAR-Robots will perform a complete evaluation of the possibilities and impacts of purposeful lifelong open-ended autonomy in these realms from an operational perspective, but also from a market-oriented (with significant productivity gains) and societal (socio-economic, ethical and regulatory) perspective. Engagement of industry and SME players is also expected in order to prepare the ground for further large-scale demonstration.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01
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