SIGVerse

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https://github.com/SIGVerse/sigverse_unity_project/wiki

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What is SIGVerse †

Understanding the mechanism of intelligence in human beings and animals is one of the most important approaches to developing intelligent robot systems. Since the mechanisms of such real-life intelligent systems are so complex, such as the physical interactions between agents and their environment and the social interactions between agents, comprehension and knowledge in many peripheral fields such as cognitive science, developmental psychology, brain science, evolutionary biology, and robotics. Discussions from an interdisciplinary aspect are very important for implementing this approach, but such collaborative research is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is difficult to obtain fruitful results from such research because the basis of experiments is very different in each research field. In the social science field, for example, several multi-agent simulation systems have been proposed for modeling factors such as social interactions and language evolution, whereas robotics researchers often use dynamics and sensor simulators. However, there is no integrated system that uses both physical simulations and social communication simulations.

Therefore, we have been developing a simulator environment called SIGVerse, which is a simulator that combines dynamics, perception, and communication simulations for synthetic approaches to research into the genesis of social intelligence. In this paper, we introduce SIGVerse, its example application and perspectives.

What is SocioIntelliGenesis? †

This keyword is innovated by Special Interest Group for SocioIntelliGenesis. We focus on a synthetic research on elucidation of genesis of social intelligence -- physical interaction between body and environment, social interaction between agents and role of evolution and so on --, with aiming to understand intelligence of humans and robots. For such an approach, we have set interdisciplinal discussions with wide viewpoint for various research field such as cognitive science, developmental psycology, brain science, evolutionary biology and robotics.

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How to use? †

You can download and install the software from https://github.com/SIGVerse/sigverse_unity_project

Please refer Tutorial for concrete usage.

How to ask questions †

Please send your request to Tetsunari Inamura at National Institute of Informatics.

Every one can join and ask question through SIGVerse Users Group ML. Please join from here

We have also Facebook Users Group page. If you want, please send request from

Who develops this system? †

P.I. of this project is Dr.Tetsunari Inamura @ National Institute of Informatics. This project is supported by so many collaborators such as SocioIntelliGenesis group.

If you have a request for collaborative research project, please contact Dr. Tetsunari Inamura

Publication †

• Paper Lists related to the SIGVerse

News †

• 2021 May: A journal paper related to the SIGVerse project has been published. We would be grateful if you could cite this paper if you publish papers using the SIGVerse.
• 2021 Jan: SIGVerse will be displayed at CES 2021 (https://www.ces.tech/international.aspx)
• 2020 Oct: RoboCup@Home Simulation was held at RoboCup JapanOpen.
• 2019 Nov 8th: Tutorial on SIGVerse was held at IROS 2019.
• 2019 Sept : Demonstration at Waseda Univ.
• 2019 August : RoboCup@Home Simulation will be held in Niigata, Japan (RoboCup Japan Open)
• 2018 Oct : Simulation competition on service robot in World Robot Summit will be held as primary.

• Past News

Future Plan †

• 2020 Oct: RoboCup@Home Simulation will be held as an official compeition in RoboCup Asia Pacific in Japan. (It might be postponed due to COVID-19. Please check the official site)