Speaker: Roderic Grupen (U. Mass. Amherst)



Abstract:
The "teleological hypothesis" has it that newborn infants model motor interactions in terms of a "means"- an effector combination; "goals"- environmental affordances that provoke a patterned response; and "constraints" that influence how a policy can be implemented. In this talk, I will introduce how such a framework can be used to learn dexterous manipulation strategies that contain implicit models of process dynamics and I will extrapolate to consider how a universe of possible interactions might be summarized in terms of such motor schema.