Bio-inspired intelligent information systems

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

Foundational research on information processing in biology in order to discover new paradigms for information technology
Information technology and telecommunications

Sujets

• Information technology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
• Applied research
• Research program
• Informatique
• Marketing et communication

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 17
• Langue: English

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Funded by DG Information Society, European Commission

FET Proactive Initiative 2004

Bio-inspired Intelligent Information Systems

Foundational research on information processing in biology in order to discover new paradigms for information technology “Reverse engineering” of the brain could order to enable the construction of overcome the present obstacles to truly hardware/sorftware “artefacts that live and grow” intelligent information systems. This initiative aims (ALG), i.e. artefacts that self-adapt and evolve at decoding brain processes and applying the beyond pure programming. knowledge for new information technologies. It  h reinforces and complements previous FET i T nit e i  Life-like Perception Systems (LPS) tems initiatives in neuro-IT. that  a a ti r v e e     i f n o s c p u ir s e e d d     b o y n     t p h e e r  s c o ep p t h i i o st n i - c r a e ti s o p n o   n o s f e     s s o y l s utions The objective is to explore new avenues in the adopted by living systems. “Perception” refers to design of intelligent information systems that sensorial, cognititive and control aspects, covering attribute meaning to complex patterns of sensory vision, hearing or any other modalitites in which a stimuli and generate sequences of elementary biological organism interacts with the environment. actions that satisfy high-level goals.The systems It also addressed the process through which sensor should show autonomous growth in perceptual, signals are integrated to form internal re- motor and cognitive abilities, and their performance presentations of the sensory world. must be assessed in realistic scenarios.  The new FP6 initiativeBeyond Robotics (BR) The ultimate aim is to build systems that exhibit addressed artificial intelligence in the context of flexible, autonomous, goal-directed behaviour in embodiment and interaction with the real world. response to changes in internal and external  Three inter-related objectives were: conditions. Background information on the Bio-inspired ✔ edevT o to s p h   w l o o rbo c se o   g “p ni u t r i p v o e s   e c   o in m lif p e a ” n   i w o o n u slletni – eb dot  gine l t Intelligent Information Systems proactive serve their human masters; initiave. ✔ To develophybrid bionic systemsthat Starting in FP5, FET has successively funded3 interface information systems with human neuro-IT  systems for augmenting or substituting nervous initiatives aiming at taking inspiration from the living, mainly neurosciences, in order to  human deficiencies in areas such as perception, derive new paradigms and technologies for  physical action and interaction with other people; information processing.TheNeuro-Informatics ✔ To developteams of autonomous for living-artefacts (NI)was a joint initiative with the Quality of Life Programme. Its objective microrobotsexhibiting collective behaviour was to explore new synergies between a se n l d f-  i o n r t g e a ll n i i g s e e n , c a e d . a T p h t, e c  r o o - b o o p t e s r   a w te o   u a l n d d     b e e v   o ab lv le e     t t o o neurosciences and information technologies in  attain a global objective.