Name of Paper

Mutual learning by autonomous mobile robots


Authors

I.D. Kelly, D.A. Keating and K.Warwick


Published

Proceedings of the first workshop on Teleoperation and Robotics, Applications in Science and Arts. Editor M. Beneder. R. Oldenbourg Wien Munchen. Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria. June 1997. pp 103-115.


Abstract

This paper describes a reinforcement learning algorithm for small mobile robots based on sets of fuzzy automata. The task the robots have to learn is how to reactively avoid obstacles. In mutual learning two robots learn simultaneously, with the experiences of one robot being passed to the second robot. We show that the robot that receives the other robots experiences learns more quickly and robustly than the robot not receiving such information.


Electronic copy

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