SPARK II

SPATIAL TEMPORAL PATTERNS FOR ACTION-ORIENTED PERCEPTION IN ROVING ROBOTS II: AN INSECT BRAIN COMPUTATIONAL MODEL

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA    more  Organization address address: Viale A. Doria, 6 city: Catania postcode: 95125 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Vincenzo Cognome: Catania Email: send email Telefono: +39 095 7382322 Fax: +39 095 330793
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	1˙308˙041 €
EC contributo	1˙000˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2007-1
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-02-01   -   2011-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA  Organization address address: Viale A. Doria, 6 city: Catania postcode: 95125 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Vincenzo Cognome: Catania Email: send email Telefono: +39 095 7382322 Fax: +39 095 330793	IT (Catania)	coordinator	0.00
2	INNOVACIONES MICROELECTRONICAS S.L.  Organization address address: AVENIDA ISAAC NEWTON S/N PABELLON DE ITALIA 7 PLANTA, ATICO city: SEVILLA postcode: 41009 contact info Titolo: MR. Nome: PANIAGUA Cognome: JAVIER Email: send email Telefono: +34 954 081261 Fax: +34 954 081242	ES (SEVILLA)	participant	0.00
3	JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET MAINZ  Organization address address: SAARSTRASSE 21 city: MAINZ postcode: 55122 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Roland H Cognome: Strauss Email: send email Telefono: -61313924985 Fax: 4961310000000	DE (MAINZ)	participant	0.00
4	UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID  Organization address address: AVENIDA DE SENECA 2 city: MADRID postcode: 28040 contact info Titolo: DR. Nome: Ignacio Cognome: Gómez Cuesta Email: send email Telefono: +34 91 394 3544 Fax: +34 91 394 3452	ES (MADRID)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The aim of SPARK II is to develop, evaluate, optimise and generalise a new, insect brain inspired, computational model. The architecture will be hierarchical, based on parallel sensory-motor pathways, implementing reflex-driven basic behaviours. These will be enriched with higher and complex insect brain structural models (Mushroom Bodies, Central Complex) and more physically-inspired nonlinear lattices. The latters will be able to generate 'self-organizing' complex dynamics, while the formers will reproduce relevant cognitive functions in insects such as attention-like processes, short-term memory and rewarding mechanisms. Both of them will work concurrently to generate cognitive behaviours at the output motor layer. nThe architecture will exploit a number of different sensors, processing signals distributed in space and time and also showing nonlinear dynamics. Perceptual processes are conceived as emerging pattern flows (result of a nonlinear spatial-temporal dynamics). Pattern meaning (concept generation) will be incrementally built upon information derived from sensors as well as from some basic 'inherited' behaviours mediated through the environment. Emerged patterns, with the concurrent dynamics generated by models of the relevant perception centres in insects, will influence the particular associated motor behaviour. nTo show the generality of the approach, the model will be applied to different robotics architectures, asked to work in real life, unstructured, cluttered and dynamically changing environment. This will demonstrate that perception for action, formulated by suitably merging complex systems with dynamics derived by insect brain models, can lead to the emergence of general archetypes of wide applicability.nFinally another challenging task will consist in using the same model, applied to different robots, to lead to the emergence of cooperation capabilities to perform tasks unable to be fulfilled by one robot alone: further proof of generality.