Dear Colleagues,
Our book on Neurorobotics is now published. Please pick up a copy :)
Happy reading!
Jeff
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Neurorobotics: Connecting the Brain, Body, And Environment, The MIT Press.
Authors: Tiffany J. Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar
Neurorobotics is an interdisciplinary field that draws on artificial
intelligence, cognitive sciences, computer science, engineering, psychology,
neuroscience, and robotics. Because the brain is closely coupled to the body
and situated in the environment, neurorobots—autonomous systems modeled after
some aspect of the brain—offer a powerful tool for studying neural function and
may also be a means for developing autonomous systems with intelligence that
rivals that of biological organisms. This textbook introduces approaches and
design principles for developing intelligent autonomous systems grounded in
biology and neuroscience. It is written for anyone interested in learning about
this topic and can be used in cognitive robotics courses for students in
psychology, cognitive science, and computer science.
Neurorobotics covers the background and foundations of the field, with
information on early neurorobots, relevant principles of neuroscience, learning
rules and mechanisms, and reinforcement learning and prediction; neurorobot
design principles grounded in neuroscience and principles of neuroscience
research; and examples of neurorobots for navigation, developmental robotics,
and social robots, presented with the cognitive science and neuroscience
background that inspired them. A supplementary website offers videos, robot
simulations, and links to software repositories with neurorobot examples.
Tiffany J. Hwu is a research scientist working on projects in autonomous agents
and human-machine communication.
Jeffrey L. Krichmar is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and
the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine,
where
he teaches courses in artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and
computational neuroscience.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716394/neurorobotics-by-tiffany-j-hwu-and-jeffrey-l-krichmar/
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Jeff Krichmar
Department of Cognitive Sciences
2328 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
[email protected]
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma
