A Framework for Integrating Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Representations

Clark, Keith; Hengst, Bernhard; Pagnucco, Maurice; Rajaratnam, David; Robinson, Peter; Sammut, Claude; Thielscher, Michael

A Framework for Integrating Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Representations

Keith Clark, Bernhard Hengst, Maurice Pagnucco, David Rajaratnam, Peter Robinson, Claude Sammut, Michael Thielscher

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 2486-2491.

Abstract

This paper establishes a framework that hierarchically integrates symbolic and sub-symbolic representations in an architecture for cognitive robotics. It is formalised abstractly as nodes in a hierarchy, with each node a sub-task that maintains its own belief-state and generates behaviour. An instantiation is developed for a real robot building towers of blocks, subject to human interference; this hierarchy uses a node with a concurrent multitasking teleo-reactive program, a node embedding a physics simulator to provide spatial knowledge, and nodes for sensor processing and robot control.

Keith Clark, Bernhard Hengst, Maurice Pagnucco, David Rajaratnam, Peter Robinson, Claude Sammut, and Michael Thielscher. 2016. A Framework for Integrating Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Representations. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-16. IJCAI, 2486–2491. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/354

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