Robot Weightlifting by Direct Policy Search

Abstract

This paper describes a method for structuring a robot motor learning task. By designing a suitably parameterized policy, we show that a simple search algorithm, along with biologically motivated con-straints, offers an effective means for motor skill acquisition. The framework makes use of the robot counterparts to several elements found in human motor learning: imitation, equilibrium-point con-trol, motor programs, and synergies. We demon-strate that through learning, coordinated behavior emerges from initial, crude knowledge about a dif-ficult robot weightlifting task. 1

Cite

Text

Rosenstein and Barto. "Robot Weightlifting by Direct Policy Search." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001.

Markdown

[Rosenstein and Barto. "Robot Weightlifting by Direct Policy Search." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/rosenstein2001ijcai-robot/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{rosenstein2001ijcai-robot,
  title     = {{Robot Weightlifting by Direct Policy Search}},
  author    = {Rosenstein, Michael T. and Barto, Andrew G.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2001},
  pages     = {839-846},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/rosenstein2001ijcai-robot/}
}