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Proyecto Feelix Growing

escrito por Raúl Arrabales Moreno

Wednesday, 05 de March de 2008

Feelix Growing (FEEL, Interact, eXpress: a Global appRoach to develOpment With INterdisciplinary Grounding) es un proyecto financiado por la Unión Europea bajo el contrato FP6 IST-045169. El proyecto se inició en Diciembre de 2006 y está planificado para terminar en Mayo de 2010. El presupuesto del proyecto es de 2.5 milliones de Euros.

Los miembros del consorcio son la Universidad de hertfordshire, el centro francés de investigación científica (CNRS), Neurocybernetics Team (ETIS), el laboratorio de algoritmos de aprendizaje y sistemas del EPFL, la Universidad de Portsmouth, el ICCS de la Universidad de Atenas, Entertainment Robotics, y Aldebaran Robotics.

El objetivo general del proyecto es avanzar en el campo de los robots sociales, desarrollando plataformas robóticas que sean capaces de integrarse efectivamente en entornos reales de la vida diaria.

Página Web del proyecto Feelix Growing: http://www.feelix-growing.org

Resumen del Proyecto (en inglés)

If robots are to be truly integrated in humans’ everyday environment in order to provide services such as company, caregiving, entertainment, patient monitoring, aids in therapy, etc., they cannot be simply designed and taken off the shelf to be directly embedded into a real-life setting. Adaptation to incompletely known and changing environments and personalization to their human users and partners are necessary features to achieve successful long-term integration. This integration would require that, like children (but on a shorter time-scale), robots develop embedded in the social environment in which they will fulfil their roles. The overall goal of this project is the interdisciplinary investigation of socially situated development from an integrated or global perspective, as a key paradigm towards achieving robots that interact with humans in their everyday environments in a rich, flexible, autonomous, and user-centred way. To achieve this general goal we set the following specific objectives:

Identification of scenarios presenting key issues and typologies of problems in the investigation of global socially situated development of autonomous (biologically and robotic) agents.
Investigation of the roles of emotion, interaction, expression, and their interplays in bootstrapping and driving socially situated development, which includes implementation of robotic systems that improve existing work in each of those aspects, and their testing in the key identified scenarios.
Integration of (a) the above capabilities in at least 2 different robotic systems, and (b) feedback across the disciplines involved.
Identification of needs and key steps towards achieving standards in: (a) the design of scenarios and problem typologies, (b) evaluation metrics, (c) the design of robotic platforms and related technology that can be realistically integrated in people’s everyday life.

FEELIX GROWING takes a highly interdisciplinary approach that combines theories, methods, and technology from developmental and comparative psychology, neuroimagery, ethology, and autonomous and developmental robotics, to investigate how socially situated development can be brought to robots that grow up and adapt to humans in everyday environments. We expect to have a significant impact on the scientific community, on two grounds. On the one hand, our research focus poses an important and as-yet largely unexplored scientific question that is increasingly recognized as a keystone in the development of human-oriented social technology and in the understanding of humans, and can contribute to the advancement of entertainment, developmental, service, and rehabilitation robotics. On the other hand, our strongly interdisciplinary effort could make important contributions to a number of disciplines and set the grounds towards long-term collaborations among them.