The feeling of action tendencies: on the emotional regulation of goal-directed behavior

R Lowe, T Ziemke - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we review the nature of the functional and causal relationship between
neurophysiologically/psychologically generated states of emotional feeling and action …

Active learning of inverse models with intrinsically motivated goal exploration in robots

A Baranes, PY Oudeyer - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
We introduce the Self-Adaptive Goal Generation Robust Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity
(SAGG-RIAC) architecture as an intrinsically motivated goal exploration mechanism which …

End-to-end navigation strategy with deep reinforcement learning for mobile robots

H Shi, L Shi, M Xu, KS Hwang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we develop a navigation strategy based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL)
for mobile robots. Because of the large difference between simulation and reality, most of the …

Powerplay: Training an increasingly general problem solver by continually searching for the simplest still unsolvable problem

J Schmidhuber - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Most of computer science focuses on automatically solving given computational problems. I
focus on automatically inventing or discovering problems in a way inspired by the playful …

Curiosity driven reinforcement learning for motion planning on humanoids

M Frank, J Leitner, M Stollenga, A Förster… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Most previous work on artificial curiosity (AC) and intrinsic motivation focuses on basic
concepts and theory. Experimental results are generally limited to toy scenarios, such as …

The strategic student approach for life-long exploration and learning

M Lopes, PY Oudeyer - 2012 IEEE international conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces the strategic student metaphor: a student has to learn a number of
topics (or tasks) to maximize its mean score, and has to choose strategically how to allocate …

A unified model of the joint development of disparity selectivity and vergence control

Y Zhao, CA Rothkopf, J Triesch… - 2012 ieee international …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning is a prime candidate as a general mechanism to learn how to
progressively choose behaviorally better options in animals and humans. An important …

Arousal regulation and affective adaptation to human responsiveness by a robot that explores and learns a novel environment

A Hiolle, M Lewis, L Cañamero - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In the context of our work in developmental robotics regarding robot–human caregiver
interactions, in this paper we investigate how a “baby” robot that explores and learns novel …

Curiosity-driven exploration enhances motor skills of continuous actor-critic learner

MB Hafez, C Weber, S Wermter - 2017 Joint IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Guiding the action selection mechanism of an autonomous agent for learning control
behaviors is a crucial issue in reinforcement learning. While classical approaches to …

A formal theory of creativity to model the creation of art

J Schmidhuber - Computers and creativity, 2012 - Springer
Abstract According to the Formal Theory of Creativity (1990–2010), a creative agent—one
that never stops generating non-trivial, novel, and surprising behaviours and data—must …