no code implementations • 13 Jul 2022 • Pietro Mazzaglia, Tim Verbelen, Ozan Çatal, Bart Dhoedt
The free energy principle, and its corollary active inference, constitute a bio-inspired theory that assumes biological agents act to remain in a restricted set of preferred states of the world, i. e., they minimize their free energy.
no code implementations • 7 May 2021 • Ozan Çatal, Wouter Jansen, Tim Verbelen, Bart Dhoedt, Jan Steckel
Biologically inspired algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) such as RatSLAM have been shown to yield effective and robust robot navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments.
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2021 • Samuel T. Wauthier, Pietro Mazzaglia, Ozan Çatal, Cedric De Boom, Tim Verbelen, Bart Dhoedt
Historically, artificial intelligence has drawn much inspiration from neuroscience to fuel advances in the field.
no code implementations • 6 Mar 2020 • Ozan Çatal, Samuel Wauthier, Tim Verbelen, Cedric De Boom, Bart Dhoedt
Active inference is a theory that underpins the way biological agent's perceive and act in the real world.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2020 • Ozan Çatal, Tim Verbelen, Johannes Nauta, Cedric De Boom, Bart Dhoedt
Active inference is a process theory of the brain that states that all living organisms infer actions in order to minimize their (expected) free energy.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2020 • Ozan Çatal, Lawrence De Mol, Tim Verbelen, Bart Dhoedt
To develop and test our method, we start with an easy to identify object: a stuffed Piglet.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2019 • Ozan Çatal, Johannes Nauta, Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Bart Dhoedt
Learning to take actions based on observations is a core requirement for artificial agents to be able to be successful and robust at their task.