Emergent Representation in a Robot Control Architecture

We offer a definition of representation based in dynamical systems. Then we present Madcat, a robotic control architecture that uses emergent representation to develop an internal model coupled to the environment through its behavior. The design is inspired by the Copycat program (Mitchell 1993). We present details of the Madcat architecture, the interface and development tool, and some results. A robot control architecture with these features will behave more robustly and autonomously in changing environments. Further research on vision and motivation will rely on the same design