Autonomous Learning of Tool Affordances by a Robot

Autonomous Learning of Tool Affordances by a Robot



Abstract

This paper introduces a novel approach to representing and learning tool affordances by a robot. The tool representation described here uses a behavior-based approach to ground the tool affordances in the behavioral repertoire of the robot. The representation is learned during a behavioral babbling stage in which the robot randomly chooses different exploratory behaviors, applies them to the tool, and observes their effects on environmental objects. The paper shows how the autonomously learned affordance representation can be used to solve tool-using tasks by dynamically sequencing the exploratory behaviors based on their expected outcomes. The quality of the learned representation was tested on extension-of-reach tool-using tasks.

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BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{Stoytchev2005,
  author =     {Alexander Stoytchev},
  title =      {Autonomous Learning of Tool Affordances by a Robot},
  booktitle =  {Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year =       2005,
  pages =      "??",
  address =    {Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania},
  month =      {July 9-13},
}

MPEG Movies from the Robot Experiments


MPEG Movies from the Dynamics Simulator

Exploratory Behaviors


Last Modified: April 3, 2005 by Alexander Stoytchev