WEEK 1: Introduction to Developmental Robotics

• Zlatev, J., and Balkenius, C. (2001). "Introduction: Why Epigenetic Robotics?" In Proc. of the First International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Balkenius, C., Zlatev, J., Kozima, H., Dautenhahn, K., and Breazeal, C. (Eds.), Lund University Cognitive Studies, 85, pp. 1-4.
• Juyang Weng, James McClelland, Alex Pentland, Olaf Sporns, Ida Stockman, Mriganka Sur and Esther Thelen (2001), "Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals", Science, v. 291, no. 5504, pp. 599-600.
• Stoytchev, Alexander. "Some basic principles of developmental robotics." IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 1.2 (2009): 122-130.
• (Optional) Asada, Minoru, et al. "Cognitive developmental robotics: A survey." IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 1.1 (2009): 12-34.
• (Optional) Asada, Minoru, et al. "Cognitive developmental robotics as a new paradigm for the design of humanoid robots." Robotics and Autonomous Systems 37.2 (2001): 185-193.

WEEK 2: Overview of Robotics and AI

• D. McDermott (1981). "Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity". Ch. 5 in Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, pp. 143-160, MIT Press.
• R. Brooks (1991). "Intelligence Without Representation", Artificial Intelligence, Volume 47 , Issue 1-3
• Rich Sutton (2000). "Mind is about conditional predictions".
• Singh, Push, Marvin Minsky, and Ian Eslick (2004). "Computing commonsense." BT Technology Journal 22.4 (2004): 201-210.
• (Optional) M. Wahde (2007). Chapter 1, Chapter 3 from "Introduction to Autonomous Robots" (early draft). Link to current edition: [PDF]
• (Optional) R. Brooks (2008). "I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot", In IEEE Spectrum.
• (Optional) Marvin Minsky (1961)."Steps towards artificial intelligence". In Proc. of the IRE.
• (Optional) A. Smola and S. V. N. Vishwanathan (2008).Chapter 1 from "Introduction to Machine Learning" , Cambridge University Press, 2008.

WEEK 3: Embodiment and the Sense of Self

Works from psychology and cognitive science:

• Graziano, M. S., Cooke D. F., and Taylor, C. S. (2000). ``Coding the location of the arm by sight''. Science. 290, pp. 1782-6.
• Rochat, P. and Striano, T. (2002). ``Who's in the mirror? Self-other discrimination in specular images by four-and nine-month-old infants'', Child Development, 73(1), pp. 35-46.
• Suddendorf, T., & Butler, D. L. (2013). "The nature of visual self-recognition". Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(3), 121-127.
• (Optional) Barth, J., Povinelli, D.J., & Cant, J.G.H. (2004). "Bodily Origins of SELF", In D. Beike, J. L. Lampinen, & D. A. Behrend (Eds.), The Self and Memory (pp. 11-43). New York: Psychology Press.

Self-Recognition and Embodiment in Robotics:

• Philipp Michel, Kevin Gold, and Brian Scassellati (2004). ``Motion-Based Robotic Self-Recognition'', In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan.
• Hoffmann, M., Marques, H., Arieta, A., Sumioka, H., Lungarella, M., & Pfeifer, R. (2010). "Body schema in robotics: a review". IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 2(4), 304-324.
• Hoffmann, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2012)."The implications of embodiment for behavior and cognition: animal and robotic case studies". arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0440.
• (Optional) Stoytchev, A. (2007). "Toward video-guided robot behaviors". In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) (Vol. 135, pp. 165-172).
• (Optional) Yoshikawa, Y., Tsuji, Y., Hosoda, K., & Asada, M. (2004). "Is it my body? Body extraction from uninterpreted sensory data based on the invariance of multiple sensory attributes". In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004.(IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (Vol. 3, pp. 2325-2330). IEEE.
• (Optional) Maruyama, S., Dineva, E., Spencer, J. P., & Schöner, G. (2014). "Change occurs when body meets environment: a review of the embodied nature of development". Japanese Psychological Research, 56(4), 385-401.

Misc.:

• (Optional) Herman Bruyninckx, ``Robot Kinematics and Dynamics'', Chapers 4 and 5.

WEEK 4: Object Affordances

Affordances in Psychology:

• Gibson, J.J. (1977). ``The Theory of Affordances''. Chapter in: Perceiving, acting, and knowing, R. E. Shaw and J. Bransford (eds), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
• Gibson, E. J. (1988). ``Exploratory behavior in the development of perceiving, acting, and the acquiring of knowledge'', Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 39, pp. 1-41.
• Glenberg, A. (1997). "What memory is for". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20 (1): 1-55. (read only pages 1-19)
• (Optional) Greeno, J. G. (1994). "Gibson's affordances."

Case-studies in Robotics (read 2 out of 3):

• Şahin, E., et al. (2010) (2007). "To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances toward affordance-based robot control." Adaptive Behavior, 15(4), 447-472.
• Sukhoy, V., et al. s(2010). "Learning to press doorbell buttons." In the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2010.
• Detry, Renaud, et al. (2011) "Learning grasp affordance densities." Paladyn 2.1: 1.

Surveys:

• Horton, T. E., Chakraborty, A., & Amant, R. S. (2012). Affordances for robots: a brief survey.
• (Optional) Min, H., Yi, C. A., Luo, R., Zhu, J., & Bi, S. (2016). "Affordance research in developmental robotics: A survey." IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 8(4), 237-255.

WEEK 5: Preliminary Proposal Presentations (no extra readikngs)

WEEK 6 - 7: Tool Use and Affordances

Tool Use in Animals:

• Hidetoshi Ishibashi, Sayaka Hihara and Atsushi Iriki (2000). "Acquisition and development of monkey tool-use: behavioral and kinematic analyses", Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology vol.78, pp. 958-966.
• Maravita, A., Iriki, A. (2004). "Tools for the body (schema)", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 2. (February 2004), pp. 79-86.
• (Optiobal) Auersperg, A. M., et al. (2012). "Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo". Current Biology, 22(21), R903-R904.

Experiments in Robotics:

• Stoytchev, A. (2005). "Behavior-Grounded Representation of Tool Affordances", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22.
• Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A. (2007). "Learning and Generalization of Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances", In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007)
• (Optional) Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A. (2008). "Detecting the functional similarities between tools using a hierarchical representation of outcomes." In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008)
• (Optional) Guerin, F., Norbert K., and Dirk K. (2013). "A survey of the ontogeny of tool use: from sensorimotor experience to planning." IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 5.1 (2013): 18-45.

WEEK 8: Theories of Vision

Vision in Psychology:

• . K. O'Regan and A. Noe, (2001). "A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 939- 1011.

Computer Vision:

• Bobick, Aaron F. "Movement, activity and action: the role of knowledge in the perception of motion." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 352.1358 (1997): 1257-1265.
• (Optional) Poppe, Ronald. "A survey on vision-based human action recognition." Image and vision computing 28.6 (2010): 976-990.
• (Optional) Frintrop, Simone, et al. "Computational visual attention systems and their cognitive foundations: A survey." ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (2010): 6.
• (Optional) Jain, Kasturi, and Schunck (1995). Machine Vision, "Chapter 1: Introduction", "Chapter 2: Binary Image Processing", McGraw-Hill, pp. 1-72.

WEEK 9: Auditory Sensing and Perception

Acoustic Perception in Psychology:

• Gaver, William W. "What in the world do we hear?: An ecological approach to auditory event perception." Ecological psychology 5.1 (1993): 1-29.
• (Optional) Boothroyd, Aitthur. "Auditory development of the hearing child." Scandinavian Audiology-Supplement Only 46 (1997): 9-16.

Experiments in Robotics:

• Torres-Jara, Eduardo, Lorenzo Natale, and Paul Fitzpatrick. "Tapping into touch." (2005): 79-86.
• (Optional) Sinapov, Jivko, Mark Wiemer, and Alexander Stoytchev. "Interactive learning of the acoustic properties of household objects." Robotics and Automation, 2009. ICRA'09. IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2009.

WEEK 10-11: Multisensory Object Representations

• Bohg, Jeannette, et al. "Interactive perception: Leveraging action in perception and perception in action." IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2017).
• Chu, Vivian, et al. "Using robotic exploratory procedures to learn the meaning of haptic adjectives." 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• (Optional) Sinapov, Jivko, et al. Grounding semantic categories in behavioral interactions: Experiments with 100 objects." Robotics and Autonomous Systems 62.5 (2014): 632-645.
• (Optional) Lynott, Dermot, and Louise Connell. "Modality exclusivity norms for 423 object properties." Behavior Research Methods 41.2 (2009): 558-564.

WEEK 12: Social and Language Learning

Language Learning in Robotics:

• Breazeal, Cynthia. "Toward sociable robots." Robotics and autonomous systems 42.3 (2003): 167-175.
• Roy, Deb. "Grounding words in perception and action: computational insights." Trends in cognitive sciences 9.8 (2005): 389-396.
• (Optional) Thomason, Jesse, et al. "Learning Multi-Modal Grounded Linguistic Semantics by Playing" I Spy"." IJCAI. 2016.

Language Learning in Humans:

• Kuhl, Patricia K. "Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code." Nature reviews neuroscience 5.11 (2004): 831-843.
• Abu-Zhaya, Rana, et al. "Building a multimodal lexicon: Lessons from infants’ learning of body part words." Proc. GLU 2017 International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding. 2017.
• (Optional) Gómez, Rebecca L., and LouAnn Gerken. "Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition." Trends in cognitive sciences 4.5 (2000): 178-186.