Morphological Wobbling Can Help Robots Learn

1 code implementation • 5 May 2022 • Fabien C. Y. Benureau, Jun Tani

We propose to make the physical characteristics of a robot oscillate while it learns to improve its behavioral performance.

Goal-directed Planning and Goal Understanding by Active Inference: Evaluation Through Simulated and Physical Robot Experiments

1 code implementation • 21 Feb 2022 • Takazumi Matsumoto, Wataru Ohata, Fabien C. Y. Benureau, Jun Tani

We show that goal-directed action planning and generation in a teleological framework can be formulated using the free energy principle.

Morphological Development at the Evolutionary Timescale: Robotic Developmental Evolution

1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2020 • Fabien C. Y. Benureau, Jun Tani

Evolution and development operate at different timescales; generations for the one, a lifetime for the other.

Developmental Learning

Diversity-Driven Selection of Exploration Strategies in Multi-Armed Bandits

no code implementations • 23 Aug 2018 • Fabien C. Y. Benureau, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

We consider a scenario where an agent has multiple available strategies to explore an unknown environment.

Multi-Armed Bandits