Robot shaping : an experiment in behavior engineering / Marco Dorigo and Marco Colombetti.
1998
TJ211.35 .D67 1998eb
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Title
Robot shaping : an experiment in behavior engineering / Marco Dorigo and Marco Colombetti.
Author
Dorigo, Marco.
ISBN
0585031037 (electronic bk.)
9780585031033 (electronic bk.)
9780262041645
0262041642
9780262271875
0262271877
9780585031033 (electronic bk.)
9780262041645
0262041642
9780262271875
0262271877
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Copyright
©1998
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
TJ211.35 .D67 1998eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.8/92
Summary
Foreword by Lashon BookerTo program an autonomous robot to act reliably in a dynamic environment is a complex task. The dynamics of the environment are unpredictable, and the robots' sensors provide noisy input. A learning autonomous robot, one that can acquire knowledge through interaction with its environment and then adapt its behavior, greatly simplifies the designer's work. A learning robot need not be given all of the details of its environment, and its sensors and actuators need not be finely tuned. Robot Shaping is about designing and building learning autonomous robots. The term "shaping" comes from experimental psychology, where it describes the incremental training of animals. The authors propose a new engineering discipline, "behavior engineering," to provide the methodologies and tools for creating autonomous robots. Their techniques are based on classifier systems, a reinforcement learning architecture originated by John Holland, to which they have added several new ideas, such as "mutespec," classifier system "energy," and dynamic population size. In the book they present Behavior Analysis and Training (BAT) as an example of a behavior engineering methodology.
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"A Bradford book."
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