Robot experiment

We present here a prototypic experiment (performed on a real robot) which illustrates the ability of the ReST architecture for linking spatial and temporal relationships, which provides a basis for robot navigation architectures. Our aim is not to solve a new hard robotics problem, but to clarify the way our system could lead to real world applications. We take into account the following classical requirements for the building of adaptive navigation systems :

• the system needs to maintain stable behaviors, in a changing environment. The use of attractor system may be suitable for such requirement [30].
• the learning of new behaviors may ground on real data. Every new behavior should have a matching correspondence with a class of real sensory motor situations [36,22,34].