Felix M. G. Woolford
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2
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9
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About
Felix M. G. Woolford is a robotics and cognitive systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of sensorimotor control, habit formation, and enactive cognition. His research focuses on developing biologically and philosophically inspired robot controllers that model how habits and adaptive behaviors emerge from sensorimotor interactions with the environment. Woolford's most notable contribution is his investigation of the Iterant Deformable Sensorimotor Medium (IDSM), a controller designed to study habits as self-sustaining patterns of sensorimotor activity. His 2019 paper examining a simplified, node-based variation of this system — which has garnered 6 citations — provides foundational insight into the behavioral dynamics of such controllers. Building on this groundwork, his 2022 paper introduces the ASM-network, a habit-based adaptive sensorimotor map network for robot control, drawing on contemporary theoretical developments in enactive cognition to explore agency and goal-oriented behavior at the sensorimotor level. Though early in his research trajectory, Woolford's work addresses deep questions about how autonomous systems can develop flexible, habit-driven behavior without explicit programming. His contributions offer a promising platform for researchers interested in embodied cognition, adaptive robotics, and the computational modeling of agency.
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- 1Behavioural variety of a node-based sensorimotor-to-motor map6 citations · 2019
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