Research Interests

My research focuses on the creation of a new developmental cognitive architecture for the autonomous acquisition of robot sensory-motor skills. This involves the creation of computational processes that continuously bootstrap sensory-motor skills on humanoid robots.

Publications

2020

  • Erhard Wieser, Gordon Cheng: EO-MTRNN: evolutionary optimization of hyperparameters for a neuro-inspired computational model of spatiotemporal learning. Biological Cybernetics , 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2018

  • Erhard Wieser and Gordon Cheng: A Self-Verifying Cognitive Architecture for Robust Bootstrapping of Sensory-Motor Skills via Multi-Purpose Predictors. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2017

  • Wolfgang Burger, Erhard Wieser, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, and Gordon Cheng: A Scalable Method for Multi-Stage Developmental Learning for Reaching. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2017 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2016

  • Erhard Wieser and Gordon Cheng: Progressive Learning of Sensory-Motor Maps through Spatiotemporal Predictors. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2016 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2014

  • Erhard Wieser and Gordon Cheng: Predictive Action Selector for Generating Meaningful Robot Behaviour from Minimum Amount of Samples. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2014 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2012

  • Erhard Wieser and Gordon Cheng: Forming Goal-directed Memory for Cognitive Development. Proceedings of Humanoids 2012 Workshop on Developmental Robotics: Can developmental robotics yield human-like cognitive abilities?, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2012 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2011

  • Erhard Wieser, Philipp Mittendorfer, Gordon Cheng: Accelerometer based robotic Joint Orientation Estimation. 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011, 67-74 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)