Autonomous Motion
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Real-time robot learning with locally weighted statistical learning

2000

Conference Paper

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Locally weighted learning (LWL) is a class of statistical learning techniques that provides useful representations and training algorithms for learning about complex phenomena during autonomous adaptive control of robotic systems. This paper introduces several LWL algorithms that have been tested successfully in real-time learning of complex robot tasks. We discuss two major classes of LWL, memory-based LWL and purely incremental LWL that does not need to remember any data explicitly. In contrast to the traditional beliefs that LWL methods cannot work well in high-dimensional spaces, we provide new algorithms that have been tested in up to 50 dimensional learning problems. The applicability of our LWL algorithms is demonstrated in various robot learning examples, including the learning of devil-sticking, pole-balancing of a humanoid robot arm, and inverse-dynamics learning for a seven degree-of-freedom robot.

Author(s): Schaal, S. and Atkeson, C. G. and Vijayakumar, S.
Book Title: International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2000)
Year: 2000

Department(s): Autonomous Motion
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Address: San Francisco, April 2000
Cross Ref: p1280
Note: clmc
URL: http://www-clmc.usc.edu/publications/S/schaal-ICRA2000.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{Schaal_ICRA_2000,
  title = {Real-time robot learning with locally weighted statistical learning},
  author = {Schaal, S. and Atkeson, C. G. and Vijayakumar, S.},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2000)},
  address = {San Francisco, April 2000},
  year = {2000},
  note = {clmc},
  doi = {},
  crossref = {p1280},
  url = {http://www-clmc.usc.edu/publications/S/schaal-ICRA2000.pdf}
}