| Abstract: |
We present a preliminary approach to the coordination and
control of sensing for action oriented perception in the
Situation Calculus. We essentially consider visual perception,
although the approach can be generalized to other forms of
perception. We show that perception is an inference process
that uses different levels of refinement, namely, direct
perception, selective sense perception and, finally,
meaningful perception. We take a cautious poiunt of view to
perception which means that we see it as a reasoning process
that can be ambiguous and mistaken. Agents can be committed to
be attentive so as to make no mistakes. Wehn the theory does not
entail that a mistake occurred then perception is considered
veridic. Ambiguity is resolved via hypothetical reasoning;
we call this non monotonic reasoning process that combines sensing,
logical inference and hypotheses, meaningful perception.
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