Empirical Inference

From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots

2010

Book Chapter

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The number of advanced robot systems has been increasing in recent years yielding a large variety of versatile designs with many degrees of freedom. These robots have the potential of being applicable in uncertain tasks outside wellstructured industrial settings. However, the complexity of both systems and tasks is often beyond the reach of classical robot programming methods. As a result, a more autonomous solution for robot task acquisition is needed where robots adaptively adjust their behaviour to the encountered situations and required tasks. Learning approaches pose one of the most appealing ways to achieve this goal. However, while learning approaches are of high importance for robotics, we cannot simply use off-the-shelf methods from the machine learning community as these usually do not scale into the domains of robotics due to excessive computational cost as well as a lack of scalability. Instead, domain appropriate approaches are needed. In this book, we focus on several core domains of robot learning. For accurate task execution, we need motor learning capabilities. For fast learning of the motor tasks, imitation learning offers the most promising approach. Self improvement requires reinforcement learning approaches that scale into the domain of complex robots. Finally, for efficient interaction of humans with robot systems, we will need a form of interaction learning. This chapter provides a general introduction to these issues and briefly presents the contributions of the subsequent chapters to the corresponding research topics.

Author(s): Sigaud, O. and Peters, J.
Book Title: From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots
Pages: 1-12
Year: 2010
Month: January
Day: 0

Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 264
Editors: Sigaud, O. and Peters, J.
Publisher: Springer

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Book Chapter (inbook)

Address: Berlin, Germany
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05181-4_1
ISBN: 978-3-642-05181-4
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

Links: Web

BibTex

@inbook{6235,
  title = {From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots},
  author = {Sigaud, O. and Peters, J.},
  booktitle = {From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots},
  pages = {1-12},
  series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 264},
  editors = {Sigaud, O. and Peters, J.},
  publisher = {Springer},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {Berlin, Germany},
  month = jan,
  year = {2010},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-05181-4_1},
  month_numeric = {1}
}