Publication
Policy Learning for Motor Skills
Jan Peters; Stefan Schaal
In: Masumi Ishikawa; Kenji Doya; Hiroyuki Miyamoto; Takeshi Yamakawa (Hrsg.). Neural Information Processing, 14th International Conference. International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP-2007), November 13-16, Kitakyushu, Japan, Pages 233-242, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4985, Springer, 2007.
Abstract
Policy learning which allows autonomous robots to adapt to novel situations has been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. However, to date, learning techniques have yet to fulfill this promise as only few methods manage to scale into the high-dimensional domains of manipulator robotics, or even the new upcoming trend of humanoid robotics, and usually scaling was only achieved in precisely pre-structured domains. In this paper, we investigate the ingredients for a general approach policy learning with the goal of an application to motor skill refinement in order to get one step closer towards human-like performance. For doing so, we study two major components for such an approach, i.e., firstly, we study policy learning algorithms which can be applied in the general setting of motor skill learning, and, secondly, we study a theoretically well-founded general approach to representing the required control structures for task representation and execution.