Visual affordance and function understanding: A survey

M Hassanin, S Khan, M Tahtali - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

Let's push things forward: A survey on robot pushing

J Stüber, C Zito, R Stolkin - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Affordances in psychology, neuroscience, and robotics: A survey

L Jamone, E Ugur, A Cangelosi… - … on Cognitive and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

The active inference approach to ecological perception: general information dynamics for natural and artificial embodied cognition

A Linson, A Clark, S Ramamoorthy… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The emerging neurocomputational vision of humans as embodied, ecologically embedded,
social agents—who shape and are shaped by their environment—offers a golden …

Computational models of affordance in robotics: a taxonomy and systematic classification

P Zech, S Haller, SR Lakani, B Ridge… - Adaptive …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

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 …

Bottom-up learning of object categories, action effects and logical rules: From continuous manipulative exploration to symbolic planning

E Ugur, J Piater - 2015 IEEE International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Deepsym: Deep symbol generation and rule learning for planning from unsupervised robot interaction

A Ahmetoglu, MY Seker, J Piater, E Oztop… - Journal of Artificial …, 2022 - jair.org
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 …

Staged development of robot skills: Behavior formation, affordance learning and imitation with motionese

E Ugur, Y Nagai, E Sahin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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) …