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

该研究计划的目标是1)探索通过感知和运动的紧密耦合来执行任务的新型机械系统，2)了解该系统的机器智能的新兴机制，以及3)开发具有这种智能的真正的机器人系统。该指导委员会负责管理四个团队，每个团队约由30名教职员工组成，推动了这种紧密耦合的知觉-运动行为方法，并保持了以下列出的各种学术活动，包括学术研讨会和会议，以使参加该计划的研究人员反映这种方法，并成功地实现了其目标。(1)指导委员会创始韩策划了整个研究计划，并推动了一些对未来机器人学具有重要意义的研究项目。并对该项目所支持的所有研究成果进行了评价。(2)本研究项目的研讨会在日本学术学会、日本机械工程学会和日本机器人学会的年会上历时三年共举办了六次。此外，每年举行一次专门的会议，以筛选进展，并就转向政策达成共识。(3)该研究计划于1997年举行了一次国际研讨会。(4)在三年内出版了十次通讯/公报，以便同时向该项目的研究人员报告重大成果。(5)开发了实时视觉系统、通用输入输出控制板和四足机器人，以形成未来实验机器人系统的基础设施。(6)该计划的所有研究成果已在光盘媒体上公布。

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.