THE ASSOCIATION REACTOR IN A HUMAN-LIKE ROBOT ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

One of the key abilities of an human-like robot architecture is to associate perceptions collected through robot's senses with similar perceptions from the past. A component called "Association Reactor" in the human-like architecture concept is demonstrated in the form of a win32 application, which was created using the WET platform in Visual Studio 2008 with a SQL database as a memory of perceptions. The principles of association detection are based on a multidimensional perception model where each dimension represents a connection to similar perceptions. Some considerations about consciousness, reliability and performance of human-like robotic systems in general are completing the paper.