Abstract
Continuous learning of object affordances in a cognitive robot is a challenging problem, the solution to which arguably requires a developmental approach. In this paper, we describe scenarios where robotic systems interact with household objects by pushing them using robot arms while observing the scene with cameras, and which must incrementally learn, without external supervision, both the effect classes that emerge from these interactions as well as a discriminative model for predicting them from object properties. We formalize the scenario as a multi-view learning problem where data co-occur over two separate data views over time, and we present an online learning framework that uses a self-supervised form of learning vector quantization to build the discriminative model. In various experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in comparison with related supervised methods using data from experiments performed using two different robotic platforms.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 24 |
Journal | International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 1 Jan 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Affordances
- Cognitive and Developmental Robotics
- Online Learning
- Self-supervised Learning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science Applications