Gagarin: A Cognitive Architecture Applied to a
    Russian-Language Interactive Humanoid Robot
                   Vadim Reutskiy                                               Nikolaos Mavridis
                Innopolis University                                    Interactive Robots and Media Lab
               v.reutsky@innopolis.ru                                         nmav@alum.mit.edu


                                                          ABSTRACT
    Cognitive Architectures have been an active area of research for more than two decades, starting from well-known
examples such as ACT-R. Beyond modeling human performance, one of the promising domains of application of
cognitive architectures is in real-world embodied situated systems, such as robots. However, most of the existing systems
have failed to be used widely, arguably for a number of reasons, the main being that they seem to have provide little added
value to real-world complex interactive robot designers as compared to a totally ad-hoc approach. To address this
situation, here we will present desiderata and an example of practical real-world cognitive architecture for the humanoid
Gagarin, aiming to fill the gap between strongly defined systems and totally ad-hoc.




  Proceedings of EUCognition 2016 - "Cognitive Robot Architectures" - CEUR-WS                                        69