Research Emerging Mechine Intelligence : A Tightly Coupled Perdeption-Motion Behavior Approach

本研究计划的目标是：1)探索通过感知与运动紧密耦合来执行任务的新型机械系统；2)了解系统机器智能的新兴机制；3)开发具有这种智能的真实机器人系统。指导委员会Sokatsu-han管理着四个团队，每个团队大约由30名教职员工组成，他们推广了这种紧密耦合的感知-运动行为方法，并举办了各种学术活动，包括学术研讨会和会议，以使该方法在参加该计划的研究人员中得到反映，并且成功地实现了其目标。(1)指导委员会Sokatsu-han规划了整个研究计划，并推动了一些对未来机器人技术具有重要意义的研究项目，并对该计划支持的所有研究成果进行了评估。(2)本研究项目在三年内共在学术学会年会、日本机械工程学会年会和日本机器人学会年会举办了六次研讨会。此外，每年举行一次有组织的特别会议，以审查进展情况，并就指导政策达成共识。(3) 1997年举行了该研究项目的国际研讨会。(4)三年内出版十次新闻通讯/公报，以便同时向本项目研究人员报告重大成果。(5)开发了实时视觉系统、多功能输入输出控制板和四足机器人，为未来的实验机器人系统奠定了基础。(6)本项目所有研究成果均以光盘媒体形式发表。

Objectives of this research program are 1) to explore novel mechanical systems which execute their tasks through tight coupling of perception with motion, 2) to understand emerging mechanisms of machine intelligence of the systems, and 3) to develop real robotic systems endowed with such intelligence. Sokatsu-han, the steering committee, supervises four teams, each team approximately consists of thirty faculty members, has promoted this tightly coupled perception-motion behavior approach, and it has kept various academic activities listed below, including academic seminars and meetings, in order to make this approach be reflected by researchers attending in this program, and its goals have been accomplished successfully.(1) Sokatsu-han, the steering committee, has planed the whole research program, and it has promoted a number of research projects significantly important for future robotics, and it has evaluated all the research results supported by this program.(2) Seminars for this research project were held totally six times over three years in the annual meetings of the academic societies, the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineering and the Robotics Society of Japan. Additionally, a special organized meeting was held each year, to screen up the progresses, and to make a consensus of the steering policy.(3) An international workshop for this research program was held in 1997.(4) A news letter/bulletin has been published ten times over three years, in order to report significant achievements to researchers in this project simultaneously.(5) A real-time vision system, all-purpose input-output control boards, and a quadruped robot have been developed, in order to form a future infrastructure for experimental robotic systems.(6) All the research results of this program has been published in a CD-ROM media.