Ecoles thématiques CNRS / CNRS Summer Schools

Enaction et sciences cognitives / Enaction and Cognitive Science

Ecole 2007 : du 7 au 17 septembre 2007 - Fréjus (France)




 

Sébastien Caron

Status Thesis student
University / Laboratory

Université du Québec à Montréal/Paris-IV Sorbonne, Laboratoire LaLicc

Email  
Laboratory website http://www.lalic.paris4.sorbonne.fr/
Personnal website

http://www.dic.dinfo.uqam.ca/etudiants/actuels/profil?no=9

Special information(s)

S. Caron(2006), Ancrage symbolique dans des catégorisations sensorimotrices : une simulation. Séminaire du département d'informatique, UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

S. Caron(2004), A FIPA-compliant agent framework integrating Protégé-2000. 7th International Protege conference, 2004, Washingthon, DC, USA.

S. Caron et F. Latfi (2003), L'informatique cognitive : un domaine multidisciplinaire. TELUQ. Colloque sur le métier de chercheur en informatique cognitive 2003, Montréal, Québec , Canada (2e prix ).

Research theme

I'm interested in solving the symbol-grounding problem (Harnad, 1990) with the help of the evolutionary robotics approach that looks at robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment without human intervention. In respect of this approach, I'll first develop an agent constituted by simple, independent, interactive, adaptive and evolutionary elements that develop a form of auto- organization that allows to the system to acquire evolutionary emergent complex properties. One of those properties will be the detection of the semantico-cognitive primitives used in the formal and computational theory of the Grammaire Appliquée et Cognitive (GAC) developed at the LaLicc Laboratory. Base on this property, the agent will be able to generate simple linguistic expression describing dynamically the viewpoint of the agent in is virtual environment with the help of GAC's functional mechanisms.

Evolutionary robotics, emergence, adaptation, natural language.

Video and experimental material