Embodied Intelligence Laboratory

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The study of Embodied Intelligence is the study of how intelligence emerges as a result of sensorimotor activity, constrained by the physical body and mental developmental program.   Evidence of biological mental development suggests that an active body is indispensable for acquisition of non-artificial intelligence.  Our research areas include, but not limited to: biologically motivated models of cognition, learning, reasoning, decision making, and development; brain-based modeling of vision and attention; image and signal processing; machine learning; pattern recognition; human-computer interactions; content-based information retrieval; speech recognition; language processing and understanding; autonomous navigation; intelligent robots (construction, control and training).

Robots:

SAIL

  • 13 DOF 
  • Main CPU Dual Pentium IV
    2.1 GHZ
    50 Giga SCSI  drives,
    1 Giga memory
  • Two CCD color cameras,
    auditory sensor, force sensors
  • SAIL developmental
    program for autonomous
    mental development
  • 202 Kg
Dav

Dav robot

  • 48 DOF 

  • Main CPU Quad Pentium, 2 Giga memory, 
    100 Giga SCSI drives

  • 11 Embedded processors

  • Two  color CCD cameras, auditory, laser range scanner, touch sensors

  • Wireless Internet 

  • Autonomous Mental Development

  • 242 Kg
Research:

oPublications

Events:

o The Brain-Mind Institute is a new kind of institute, located at MSU with international participation. Its website was operational, Sept. 15, 2011.
o The slides of my talk that discussed political, research, the peer-review problems in US and China: "Science Should Expend Its Horizon: Suggestions to the US and Chinese Governments", NSF Workshop on US-China Collaborations, Arlington, Virginia, May 23-24, 2011.
o My discussion about the new developmental science (Science of Organizations) including research, management, economy and society: "Through the Symbol-Grounding Problem See the Two Largest Hindrances of Science", AMD Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 1 , April 2011.
o IJCNN 2011 Panel: Brain-Mind Architectures: Module-Free, General Purpose and Immediate Learning
o IJCNN 2011 Special Session: Brain-Mind Architectures and Learning Mechanisms
o AMD Newsletter Vol. 7, No.2, Oct. 2011. Dialog initiation: "Are Natural Languages Symbolic in the Brain?"
o Decade of the Mind VI. Speakers
o IJCNN 2010 Panel: "Between Bottom-up and Top-down What is `the Much in Between'?" with email discussion.
o Special session: "Mental Architecture and Representation", IJCNN 2010
o AMD Newsletter Vol. 7, No.1, April 2011. Developmental Stereo to appear in TAMD
o Tutorial: "General-Purpose Vision Architecture, Invairance, Attention, and Reasoning", CVPR 2010, Tutorial slides.
o AMD Newsletter Vol 6, No. 2, October 2009. AMD Principles: Have We Passed “Black Art”?
o The creation of the IEEE Transactions on Autonsomous Mental Development and its inaugural issue, May 2009
o AMD Newsletter Vol 6, No. 1, April 2009. LCA to appear in TAMD
o IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'09), Shanghai, China, June 4-7, 2009
o AMD Newsletter Vol 5, No. 2, October 2008. "“Killer” Applications for Developmental Robotics and Humans: Muddy Tasks"
o AMD Newsletter Vol 5, No. 1, April 2008. "How the Mind Works and How the Brain Develops"
o INNS Symposia: New directions in Neural Networks (INNS-NNN) - Modeling the Brain and Nervous Systems , Auckland, NZ, November 24-25, 2008.
o The 7th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'08), Monterey, California, August 9-12, 2008
o AMD Newsletter Vol 4, No. 2, October 2007. Reply to Dialog: “Should Robots Develop as Human Infants Do?”
o AMD Newsletter Vol 4, No. 1, April 2007. Glossary: Genomic equivalence
o The 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'07), London, UK, July 11-13, 2007
o AMD Newsletter Vol 3, No. 2, November 2006
o Special Issue on Autonomous Mental Development in the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
o IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine feature article, "From Neural Networks to the Brain: Autonomous Mental Development," August 2006
o Tutorial: Biologically Motivated Mental Architectures, WCCI 2006, Vancouver, BC Canada, July 16, 2006
o The Special Session on Autonomous Mental Development of WCCI 2006, Vancouver, BC Canada, July 16-21, 2006
o The 5th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'06), Bloomington, IN, USA, May 31 - June 3, 2006
o AMD Newsletter Vol 3, No. 1, April, 2006
o AMD Newsletter Vol 2, No. 2, October, 2005
o The 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'05), Osaka, Japan, July 19-21, 2005
o The 5th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Nara, Japan, July 22-24, 2005
o AMD Newsletter Vol 2, No. 1, April, 2005
o The Establishment of the ICDL Governing Board, January 2005
o AMD Newsletter Vol 1, No. 2, October, 2004
o Special Issue on Autonomous Mental Development in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Papers due March 15, 2005
o Tutorial "Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals" at Dept. of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Sept. 28, 2004
o 2005 AAAI Spring Symposiums, Developmental Robotics Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 21-23, 2005
o Creation of AMD Newsletter: the inaugural issue: AMD Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2004
o Inaugural issue of IJHR, April 2004
o The 3rd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'04), San Diego, Oct. 20-22, 2004
o IJCNN'04 Tutorial: Autonomous Mental Development: A New Frontier for Computational Intelligence, July 25, 2004
o Creation of the Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee of  the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Feb. 2004.  AMD TC web pages for 2004 - 2005. 
o IEEE Neural Networks Society changed its name to IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Feb. 2004
o IEEE Connections: "The brain is not only an information processor, but also ... ", 
     with the feature article: "Autonomous Mental Development: A New Frontier for Computational Intelligence." Nov. 2003
o ACCV'04 Tutorial: "Developmental Vision," Jan. 2004 
o One Book, One Community event:   Panel session.  "What Makes Us Human?" East Lansing Public Library, 7:00 p.m.  Oct. 2, 2003 
o New Journal: International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
o The 2nd International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 10-11, 2002
o The 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'02), held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 12-15, 2002
o Science At The Edge Seminars, MSU, Fall 2001
o IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics, Seattle, Washington, August 4-5, 2001
o MSU Intelligent Robot Distinguished Lecture Series
o Creation of Mental Development Repository (www.mentaldev.org), Dec. 2000
o NSF/DARPA Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), held at Michigan State University, April 2000

Movies:

o Movie 1: Vision-guided indoor navigation and learning-based motion tracking (supervised learning) (MPEG 36.7MB),  
o Movie 2: Simple language acquisition and vision-guided indoor navigation (supervised, reinforcement and communicative learning) (MPEG 48.9 MB),
o Movie 3: Vision-guided outdoor navigation (supervised learning) (MPEG 16.8MB) 
o Movie 4: Audition-based action chaining (task transfer) (supervised and communicative learning) (MPEG 29.6MB)
o Movie 5: Integration of vision and audition in a dynamic world via online dialogue (supervised and communicative learning) (MPEG 26.4MB) 
o Movie 6: Dav starts its moves (programmed-in behaviors, not learned yet) (MPEG 26MB)
o Movie 7: Drawbridge experiment ("Innate" knowledge about object permanence or perceptual novelty instead?) (MPEG 24MB) 
o Movie 8: Learning early speech production (reinforcement learning in high dimensional action and state spaces) (MPEG 35mB)
o Movie 9: Dav performs collision avoidance (online-learning and attention-based approach to obstacle avoidance using range finder) (MPEG 14mB)

From the Popular Press:

o (Technology Review) Teachable Robots
o(Detroit Free Press) Possibilities Limitless for MSU's Thinking Robots
o(Lansing State Journal) Dav, A Robotic Soldier, or Just Maybe a Maid.  Another related article with a picture.
o(Exploratorium Magazine)  Bringing up Baby 
o (ACM TechNews, US) New Kind of Intelligent Robot Can Learn by Experience
o (KRN, US) Like a Child, "Smart" Robot Learns Gradually appeared in about 30 US newspapers including Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Jose Mercury News.
o (Boiler Magazine, Italy) La mente del robot (The Mind of Robot)
o (TP, Singapore) Bring on the Intelligent Robot
o(Telepolis, Germany) Lernen wie die Kinder (Learn like a Child)
o (UPI, USA) Robot Learns Like a Child 
o (BBC, UK) Time for Real Intelligence?

Software:

        o Softwares of MILN, LCA, IHDR and CCIPCA are available here.

Archive:

       oIntegrated Hybrid Software Framework for Autonomous Mobile Robots (DARPA Funded Research)

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Embodied Intelligence Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University

This website maintained by Matt Luciw and John Weng

Last updated: April, 2009