Visual affordance and function understanding: A survey
Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …
Let's push things forward: A survey on robot pushing
As robots make their way out of factories into human environments, outer space, and
beyond, they require the skill to manipulate their environment in multifarious, unforeseeable …
beyond, they require the skill to manipulate their environment in multifarious, unforeseeable …
Affordances in psychology, neuroscience, and robotics: A survey
The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …
The active inference approach to ecological perception: general information dynamics for natural and artificial embodied cognition
The emerging neurocomputational vision of humans as embodied, ecologically embedded,
social agents—who shape and are shaped by their environment—offers a golden …
social agents—who shape and are shaped by their environment—offers a golden …
Computational models of affordance in robotics: a taxonomy and systematic classification
JJ Gibson's concept of affordance, one of the central pillars of ecological psychology, is a
truly remarkable idea that provides a concise theory of animal perception predicated on …
truly remarkable idea that provides a concise theory of animal perception predicated on …
Affordance research in developmental robotics: A survey
H Min, R Luo, J Zhu, S Bi - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Affordances capture the relationships between a robot and the environment in terms of the
actions that the robot is able to perform. The notable characteristic of affordance-based …
actions that the robot is able to perform. The notable characteristic of affordance-based …
Bottom-up learning of object categories, action effects and logical rules: From continuous manipulative exploration to symbolic planning
This work aims for bottom-up and autonomous development of symbolic planning operators
from continuous interaction experience of a manipulator robot that explores the environment …
from continuous interaction experience of a manipulator robot that explores the environment …
Deepsym: Deep symbol generation and rule learning for planning from unsupervised robot interaction
Symbolic planning and reasoning are powerful tools for robots tackling complex tasks.
However, the need to manually design the symbols restrict their applicability, especially for …
However, the need to manually design the symbols restrict their applicability, especially for …
Staged development of robot skills: Behavior formation, affordance learning and imitation with motionese
Inspired by infant development, we propose a three staged developmental framework for an
anthropomorphic robot manipulator. In the first stage, the robot is initialized with a basic …
anthropomorphic robot manipulator. In the first stage, the robot is initialized with a basic …
Affordances for robots: a brief survey
TE Horton, A Chakraborty, RS Amant - AVANT. Pismo Awangardy …, 2012 - ceeol.com
In this paper, we consider the influence of Gibson's affordance theory on the design of
robotic agents. Affordance theory (and the ecological approach to agent design in general) …
robotic agents. Affordance theory (and the ecological approach to agent design in general) …