12:00 PM-1:00 PM on October 16, 2014
Location: CCB 345
Presenter: Dr. Heni Ben Amor
Title: Learning Motor Skills for Humanoid Robots
Abstract: Research in robotics and AI has lead to the emergence of increasingly complex anthropomorphic robots, such as humanoids and androids. In order to be meaningfully applied in human-inhabited environments, anthropomorphic robots need to possess a variety of physical abilities and skills. However, programming such skills is a labour and time intensive task which requires a large amount of expert knowledge. This talk presents methods from machine learning, in particular imitation learning, for the automatic acquisition of robot motor skills. The talk will cover various humanoid platforms that I have worked on in Europe, Japan, and the USA.