A multiagent reinforcement learning approach for inverse kinematics of high dimensional manipulators with precision positioning

Y Ansari, E Falotico, Y Mollard, B Busch… - 2016 6th IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible manipulators based on soft robotic technologies demonstrate compliance and
dexterous maneuverability with virtually infinite degrees-of-freedom. Such systems have …

Goal-directed exploration for learning vowels and syllables: a computational model of speech acquisition

A Philippsen - KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2021 - Springer
Infants learn to speak rapidly during their first years of life, gradually improving from simple
vowel-like sounds to larger consonant-vowel complexes. Learning to control their vocal tract …

Goal-related feedback guides motor exploration and redundancy resolution in human motor skill acquisition

M Rohde, K Narioka, JJ Steil, LK Klein… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The plasticity of the human nervous system allows us to acquire an open-ended repository
of sensorimotor skills in adulthood, such as the mastery of tools, musical instruments or …

Goal babbling of acoustic-articulatory models with adaptive exploration noise

AK Philippsen, RF Reinhart… - 2016 Joint IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We use goal babbling to bootstrap a parametric model of speech production for a complex
3D vocal tract model. The system learns to control the articulators for producing five different …

Online body schema adaptation based on internal mental simulation and multisensory feedback

P Vicente, L Jamone, A Bernardino - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we describe a novel approach to obtain automatic adaptation of the robot body
schema and to improve the robot perceptual and motor skills based on this body knowledge …

Explauto: an open-source Python library to study autonomous exploration in developmental robotics

C Moulin-Frier, P Rouanet… - … on Development and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Explauto library provides a common platform to the Developmental Robotics community
allowing the integration and comparison of various exploration strategies driving various …

Incremental adaptation of a robot body schema based on touch events

R Zenha, P Vicente, L Jamone… - 2018 joint ieee 8th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The termbody schema'refers to a computational representation of a physical body; the
neural representation of a human body, or the numerical representation of a robot body. In …

Interest-driven exploration with observational learning for developmental robots

R Rayyes, H Donat, J Steil… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been emphasized for a long time that real-world applications of developmental robots
require lifelong and online learning. A major challenge in this field is the high sample …

What are goals? And if so, how many?

M Rolf, M Asada - 2015 Joint IEEE International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goals are concepts used in many different areas of robotics, artificial intelligence,
psychology, neuroscience, and also philosophy. Despite the wide usage, there is no …

Learning inverse statics models efficiently with symmetry-based exploration

R Rayyes, D Kubus, J Steil - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Learning (inverse) kinematics and dynamics models of dexterous robots for the entire action
or observation space is challenging and costly. Sampling the entire space is usually …