The scientific work is divided into five modules, covering the different aspects of the SENSOPAC project.

Module 1 - Active sensing

The overall objective of this module is to understand how humans and animals integrate sensory information to form beliefs about the world, how this information is modulated by the active exploration process, and how these processes form a framework for active perception.

Module 2 - Structure and statistics of sensorimotor interaction

This module addresses the question as to how we can automatically detect and represent structure in high dimensional sensorimotor maps under dynamically changing context

Module 3 - Movement and coordination of active perception

This module investigates an artificial arm-hand system to provide a rich motor domain for haptic cognition. The arm-hand system follows strong anthropomorphic principles to match the complexity of real-world haptic cognition.

Module 4 - Computation and learning in neural circuits for sensorimotor processing

The aim of this module is to understand the biological mechanisms in sufficient detail to allow artificial bio-inspired haptic cognitive systems to scale to the complexity of the real world.

Module 5 - Towards an artificial haptic cognitive system

The overall objective of this module is to develop a biologically-inspired artificial system for active haptic cognition.