Bücher der Reihe Cognitive Systems Monographs

Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems presents a control-algorithm-based model that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups, or robot swarms. Readers will find an extensive look into the interdisciplinary research field of swarm robotics.

This book focuses on a critical issue in the study of physical agents, whether natural or artificial: the quantitative modelling of sensory-motor coordination.Adopting a novel approach, it defines a common scientific framework for both the intelligent systems designed by engineers and those that have evolved naturally. As such it contributes to the widespread adoption of a rigorous quantitative and refutable approach in the scientific study of 'embodied' intelligence and cognition. More than 70 years after Norbert Wiener's famous book Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), robotics, AI and life sciences seem to be converging towards a common model of what we can call the 'science of embodied intelligent/cognitive agents'. This book is interesting for an interdisciplinary community of researchers, technologists and entrepreneurs working at the frontiers of robotics and AI, neuroscience and general life and brain sciences.

This is the first book on the subject of Performance Capture. It details the overall system in steps which facilitate implementation, describing the whole process from data capture to rendering to the final result.

Addresses the central role played by development in cognition. This book focuses on applying our knowledge of development in natural cognitive systems, specifically human infants, to the problem of creating artificial cognitive systems in the guise of humanoid robots.

The Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Grasping

This book examines the evolution of self-organised multicellular structures, and the remarkable transition from unicellular to multicellular life. It shows the way forward in developing new robotic entities that are versatile, cooperative and self-configuring.

From Animals to Robots and Back: Reflections on Hard Problems in the Study of Cognition

This book covers all major aspects of cutting-edge research in the field of neuromorphic hardware engineering involving emerging nanoscale devices.

This book covers various topics related to complex sports biodynamics. It dispels classical myths of a biomechanically sound serve, forehand, and backhand, and describes and explains the physical and mental abilities of a champion.

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered Robotic Systems" held on November 19-20, 2009, in Bielefeld University, Germany.

The Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistance (CoSy) project was organized to address the issues of i) theoretical progress on design of cognitive systems ii) methods for implementation of systems and iii) empirical studies to further understand the use and interaction with such systems.

This book offers a fundamental scientific approach to tennis. It reveals the secret weapon of Roger Federer as well as presents the blueprint of a future tennis champion.

This book explores the idea of human cognition as a chance-seeking system. It offers novel insights about how to treat some issues pertaining to decision making and problem solving.

This book introduces the capability map, a novel general representation of the kinematic capabilities of a robot arm. The coverage includes examples from several distinct application domains, including a bi-manual interface for tele-operation and more.

This book presents the state of the art of cognitive information systems. It details the fundamentals of cognitive informatics, guiding readers on an interesting journey through the intricacies of information and cognitive science.

With the aid of this book, the reader will learn everything about the self-organization of behavior in robots that is known today. Many of the results are presented here for the first time. This work opens a new field of research.

This compact, yet comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human face recognition covers the key neuroimaging techniques for investigating the brain and the clinical and neural features of prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces.

The basic principles guiding sensing, perception and action in bio systems seem to rely on highly organised spatial-temporal dynamics.

This book examines basic forms of locomotion such as walking and running, and explores the use of mathematical models and numerical simulation and optimization techniques, in combination with experimental data, to better understand the underlying mechanisms.

This book details a framework focused on manipulation interactions that allows the study of the grasp through simulation. It shows that the biomechanical study of the human hand and analysis of robotic manipulation of objects greatly benefit from each other.