Connection Science Journal: A Special Issue on Developmental Robotics
Call for Papers: Due September 15, 2005
Connection Science Journal: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09540091.asp
Guest Editors
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Douglas Blank
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Lisa Meeden
Developmental robotics is a new approach that focuses on the autonomous self-organization of general-purpose control systems. It takes its inspiration from developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience. Developmental robotics is a move away from task-specific methodologies where a robot is designed to solve a particular pre-defined task (such as path planning to a goal location). This new approach explores the kinds of behaviors that a robot can discover through self-motivated actions based on its own physical morphology and the dynamic structure of its environment. Initially a developmental system might bootstrap itself with some innate knowledge, but with experience could create more complex representations and behaviors. Developmental robotics is different from many learning and evolutionary systems in that the reinforcement signal, teacher target, or fitness function comes from within the system. In this manner, these systems are designed to rely more on mechanisms such as intrinsic motivation or homeostasis.
We invite contributions on architectures for developmental robotics, examples of developmental behavior in robots, as well as features or mechanisms of developmental processing including, but not limited to: self-organization, self-exploration, self-motivation, categorization, value systems, and anticipation-driven learning.
For more information on developmental robotics see: http://DevelopmentalRobotics.org
Submission Instructions and Deadlines
Papers should follow the Connection Science guidelines: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ccosauth.asp
Papers should be emailed as a PDF attachment to dblank@cs.brynmawr.edu and meeden@cs.swarthmore.edu, the guest editors.
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September 15, 2005 Papers due
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October 15, 2005 Reviews returned to authors
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November 15, 2005 Final versions of papers due
The special issue will be published in the first quarter of 2006.