CATEGORIZATION AUTOMATA EMPLOYING NEURONAL GROUP SELECTION WITH REENTRY

摘要

An apparatus capable of sensing the presence of objects in its environment, categorizing these objects without a prior descriptionof the categories to be expected, and controlling robotic effector mechanisms to respond differentially to such objectsaccording to their categories. Such responses include sorting objects, rejecting objects of certain types, and detecting, novel or deviantobjects. The invention includes a device called a "classification n-tuple" (of which a "classification couple" is a specialcase) capable of combining signals from two or more sensory modalities to arrive at the classification of an object.