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Los Angeles, May 1, 2006 — HRL Laboratories, LLC has been awarded a $1.1M 13-month Phase I contract to develop a comprehensive brain-like architecture in a step towards realizing intelligent machines and systems. This architecture is aimed towards addressing human-like cognitive abilities of integrated perception, action and learning. Further, the architecture must be amenable to computational models, simulations and validation.
The contract award is from the Defense Advanced Research Planning Agency (DARPA), Information Processing Technology Office, and is part of a major program to create computer models that simulate human behavior and approach human thought and response in a wide range of situations.
The HRL project is called Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture for Integrated Learning, Action, and Perception, or BICA-LEAP. In the project, the company is developing a single comprehensive architecture to seamlessly integrate perception, memory, planning, decision-making, action, self-learning and affect to address the full range of human cognition. The Malibu-based research facility will focus on goal-driven scene understanding, language communication, and learning sequentially planned behaviors, as well as on the comprehensive brain-like cognitive architecture.
The long-term goals of the DARPA/Information Processing Technology Office program is design (in Phase 1) and implementation (in Phase 2) of architectures of human cognition. Ideas and technology to enhance learning performance are especially of interest to the Program, as is a resultant ability to deal effectively with new and novel situations. In the HRL vision of this technology, the architecture will be integrated into a variety of applications and existing systems, providing support or replacement for human reasoning and decision-making, leading to revolutionary use in military and commercial applications.
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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California, is a corporate R&D laboratory owned by Boeing, General Motors, and Raytheon. HRL provides custom R&D and performs additional R&D contract services for its three LLC Members, for the U.S. government, and for other commercial entities.
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