Bachelor Thesis BCLR-2015-46

BibliographySauer, Lukas: An AI formalization of Betty the Crow's sequential geometric tool use.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Bachelor Thesis No. 46 (2015).
18 pages, english.
Abstract

Betty The Crow was a new caledonian crow that, in the lab of Alex Kacelnik, demonstrated surprising skill in sequentially using tools to reach for other tools to reach for a reward. The goal of this work is to nd an AI formalization of such behaviour that combines reasoning over a sequence of rst-order logic decision variables as well as over the geometric path to execute the reaching and tool use motions. For that, we rst consider the general area of Task And Motion Planning problems; we use an approach of decomposing the problem into smaller ones solvable by (existing, blackbox) modules; we test a simple implementation of the resulting method on some small problem instances.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Machine Learning und Robotics
Superviser(s)Toussaint, Prof. Marc
Entry dateNovember 16, 2018
   Publ. Computer Science