Best-Effort Adaptive-Optimal Sensorimotor Transformations (BEAST)

The BEAST architecture has been developed at UMass to provide a computational account of sensorimotor development for use in robot programming. "Best-Effort" in the acronym refers to constraints related to the embodiment of our robot systems; sensory and motor systems, kinematics, a reflexive basis we call the control basis.


Figure 1: BEAST - Best-Effort Adaptive-Optimal Sensorimotor Transformations
failure - must expect that the robot discovers its physical limitations as well as its strengths --- "pigs don't fly (but humans do)."



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