What Can I Not Do? Towards an Architecture for Reasoning about and Learning Affordances

Mohan Sridharan; Ben  Meadows; Rocio Gomez

What Can I Not Do? Towards an Architecture for Reasoning about and Learning Affordances

Mohan Sridharan, Ben Meadows, Rocio Gomez

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This paper describes an architecture for an agent to learn and reason about affordances. In this architecture, Answer Set Prolog, a declarative language, is used to represent and reason with incomplete domain knowledge that includes a representation of affordances as relations defined jointly over objects and actions. Reinforcement learning and decision-tree induction based on this relational representation and observations of action outcomes, are used to interactively and cumulatively (a) acquire knowledge of affordances of specific
objects being operated upon by specific agents; and (b) generalize from these specific learned instances. The capabilities of this architecture are illustrated and evaluated in two simulated domains, a variant of the classic Blocks World domain, and a robot assisting humans in an office environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017)
Editors	Laura Barbalescu, Jeremy Frank, Mausam, Stephen F. Smith
Publisher	AAAI Press
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2017
Event	Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017) - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 18 Jun 2017 → 23 Jun 2017

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Conference	Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	18/06/17 → 23/06/17

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Sridharan, M, Meadows, B & Gomez, R 2017, What Can I Not Do? Towards an Architecture for Reasoning about and Learning Affordances. in L Barbalescu, J Frank, Mausam & SF Smith (eds), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017). AAAI Press, Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017)
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What Can I Not Do? Towards an Architecture for Reasoning about and Learning Affordances. / Sridharan, Mohan; Meadows, Ben ; Gomez, Rocio.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017). ed. / Laura Barbalescu; Jeremy Frank; Mausam; Stephen F. Smith. AAAI Press, 2017.

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