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In this work, we present the development of a neuro-inspired approach for characterizing sensorimotor relations in robotic systems. The proposed method has self-organizing and associative properties that enable it to autonomously obtain these relations without any prior knowledge of either the motor (e.g. mechanical structure) or perceptual (e.g. sensor calibration) models. Self-organizing topographic properties are used to build both sensory and motor maps, then the associative properties rule the stability and accuracy of the emerging connections between these maps. Compared to previous works, our method introduces a new varying density self-organizing map (VDSOM) that controls the concentration of nodes in regions with large transformation errors without affecting much the computational time. A distortion metric is measured to achieve a self-tuning sensorimotor model that adapts to changes in either motor or sensory models. The obtained sensorimotor maps prove to have less error than conventional self-organizing methods and potential for further development.
This work is supported in part by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong under grant number 14203917, and in part by PROCORE-France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme sponsored by the RGC and the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong under grant F-PolyU503/18.
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Zahra, O., Navarro-Alarcon, D. (2019). A Self-organizing Network with Varying Density Structure for Characterizing Sensorimotor Transformations in Robotic Systems. In: Althoefer, K., Konstantinova, J., Zhang, K. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11650. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25332-5_15
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