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There is a growing interest within various research communities in modeling motor control systems with modular structures. Recent studies identified that such control structures have many interesting properties. This chapter focuses, in a robot environment, on properties that are related to the fact that specific sets of contexts can themselves be modular. In particular, the chapter shows that the adaptation of a modular control structure can be guided by the modularity of contexts, by means of interpreting a current unexperienced context as the combination of previously experienced contexts.
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Nori, F., Metta, G., Sandini, G. (2008). Exploiting Motor Modules in Modular Contexts in Humanoid Robotics. In: Schuster, A. (eds) Robust Intelligent Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-261-6_10
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