IST-2001-37173 (ADAPT) 1/6/2004 Deliverable 5.1 1 ADAPT IST–2001-37173 Artificial Development Approach to Presence Technologies Deliverable Item 5.1 System’s architecture Delivery Date: January 06, 2004 Classification: Public Responsible Person: Giorgio Metta Partners Contributed: ALL Short Description: The main objective of this document is to provide a set of design principles that allow our research into developmental robotics, developmental psychology, and cognitive science to coalesce into the design of a complete system’s architecture that can be embodied into a physical system (a robotic platform) capable of interacting with the external environment. The system’s architecture should provide a medium for an intentional process (as extensively defined in D2.1) to ‘emerge’ from a loop between motor actions, epigenetic development of multi-modal representations of visual, auditory, and haptic sensations, and the use of these representations to derive new motivations. This deliverable is intended to be the link between the theory of intentionality as outlined in D2.1 and the actual implementation into the robotic platform. In practice, the forthcoming D5.2 and D5.3 will include an ever growing amount of details on the architecture as experimentation progresses. Project funded by the European Community under the “Information Society Technologies” Programme (1998-2002)