Efficient exploratory learning of inverse kinematics on a bionic elephant trunk

M Rolf, JJ Steil - IEEE transactions on neural networks and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an approach to learn the inverse kinematics of the “bionic handling assistant”-an
elephant trunk robot. This task comprises substantial challenges including high …

Goal-directed tactile exploration for body model learning through self-touch on a humanoid robot

F Gama, M Shcherban, M Rolf… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An early integration of tactile sensing into motor coordination is the norm in animals, but still
a challenge for robots. Tactile exploration through touches on the body gives rise to first …

Goal babbling with unknown ranges: A direction-sampling approach

M Rolf - 2013 IEEE Third Joint International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal babbling is a recent concept for the efficient bootstrapping of sensorimotor coordination
that is inspired by infants' early goal-directed movement attempts. Several studies have …

Hierarchical interest-driven goal babbling for efficient bootstrapping of sensorimotor skills

R Rayyes, H Donat, J Steil - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel hierarchical online learning scheme for fast and efficient bootstrapping
of sensorimotor skills. Our scheme permits rapid data-driven robot model learning in a" …

Efficient policy search in low-dimensional embedding spaces by generalizing motion primitives with a parameterized skill memory

RF Reinhart, JJ Steil - Autonomous Robots, 2015 - Springer
Motion primitives are an established paradigm to generate complex motions from simpler
building blocks. A much less addressed issue is at which level to encode and how to …

Efficient policy search with a parameterized skill memory

RF Reinhart, JJ Steil - 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion primitives are an established paradigm to generate complex motions from simpler
building blocks. A much less addressed issue is at which level to encode and organize a …

Continuum worm-like robotic mechanism with decentral control architecture

M Eder, M Karl, A Knoll… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible continuum robots are utilized for operational areas, in which discretely structured
robots are not suitable due to their kinematic limitations. Continuum mechanisms feature …

Online associative multi-stage goal babbling toward versatile learning of sensorimotor skills

R Rayyes, J Steil - … Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop an online learning scheme inspired by the versatility of the human learning
system to bootstrap several sensorimotor skills in “Learning while Behaving” fashion. Our …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-stage goal babbling for learning inverse models simultaneously

R Rayyes, D Kubus, J Steil - IROS Workshop, 2018 - webarchiv.typo3.tum.de
Online Goal Babbling has been proposed for directed learning of inverse kinematics from
scratch following the paradigm of” learning while behaving”. In this paper, we show that Goal …

[PDF][PDF] Efficient and stable online learning for developmental robots

R Rayyes - 2020 - scholar.archive.org
Efficient and Stable Online Learning for Developmental Robots Page 1 Efficient and Stable
Online Learning for Developmental Robots Von der Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Fakultät der …