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How Albot 0 Finds Its Way Home: A Novel Approach to Cognitive Mapping Using Robots
Author(s) -
Yeap Wai K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01157.x
Subject(s) - cognitive map , robot , cognition , computer science , process (computing) , mind map , fuzzy cognitive map , artificial intelligence , human–computer interaction , psychology , neuroscience , fuzzy set , fuzzy number , fuzzy logic , operating system
Much of what we know about cognitive mapping comes from observing how biological agents behave in their physical environments, and several of these ideas were implemented on robots, imitating such a process. In this paper a novel approach to cognitive mapping is presented whereby robots are treated as a species of their own and their cognitive mapping is being investigated. Such robots are referred to as Albots. The design of the first Albot, Albot 0 , is presented. Albot 0 computes an imprecise map and employs a novel method to find its way home. Both the map and the return‐home algorithm exhibited characteristics commonly found in biological agents. What we have learned from Albot 0 ’s cognitive mapping are discussed. One major lesson is that the spatiality in a cognitive map affords us rich and useful information and this argues against recent suggestions that the notion of a cognitive map is not a useful one.