Robot multimodal object perception and recognition: Synthetic maturation of sensorimotor learning in embodied systems

R Braud, A Giagkos, P Shaw, M Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is known that during early infancy, humans experience many physical and cognitive
changes that shape their learning and refine their understanding of objects in the world. With …

Develo** hierarchical schemas and building schema chains through practice play behavior

S Kumar, P Shaw, A Giagkos, R Braud, M Lee… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Examining the different stages of learning through play in humans during early life has been
a topic of interest for various scholars. Play evolves from practice to symbolic and then later …

Discovering schema-based action sequences through play in situated humanoid robots

S Kumar, A Giagkos, P Shaw, R Braud… - … on Cognitive and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exercising sensorimotor and cognitive functions allows humans, including infants, to interact
with the environment and objects within it. In particular, during everyday activities, infants …

[PDF][PDF] Learning with play behaviour in artificial agents

S Kumar, Q Shen - 2019‏ - research.aber.ac.uk
This thesis investigates the role of exploratory play in the development of the basic
knowledge of actions and objects involved in play with artificial agents. We developed a …

Building representations of proto-objects with exploration of the effect on fixation times

R Braud, A Giagkos, P Shaw, M Lee… - 2017 Joint IEEE …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During development, infants rapidly build models of the world around them, segmenting the
visual scene into clusters of features that can be indexed as proto-objects. These proto …