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               University of New South Wales

         School of Computer Science and Engineering

             Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

                       Seminar Series

TITLE:         Learning in Robotics By Experimentation

WHO:           Tatjana Zrimec

               University of Ljubljana, Faculty of  Electri-
               cal Engineering and Computer Science,

               Ljubljana, Slovenia.

WHEN:          1-2pm, Friday, 18 Sept, 1992.

ABSTRACT:      Present robotic systems are  still  difficult
               to  work  with  and are successfully employed
               only in very  carefully  engineered  environ-
               ments.   One way of making robot systems more
               universal is to  enable  robots  to   acquire
               knowledge  about their environment and to use
               this knowledge.

               This work investigates the  use  of  learning
               through   experimentation  by  an  autonomous
               agent.  A  real  robot  is  embedded  in   an
               environment  that  can  be  sensed  and acted
               upon. Through learning, the robot is able  to
               induce  laws  about  its  environment and  to
               discover  some  basic  relationships  between
               action  and   perception.  The  result of the
               learning is a qualitative model.  The result-
               ing  knowledge  is   common  sense  knowledge
               represented  through  different   levels   of
               abstraction.

               With this work we show that  is  possible  to
               develop  a  theory  of  a  dynamic process by
               experimentation and learning.  The  developed
               qualitative  model for object pushing is com-
               pletely supported by the  theory  of  pushing
               developed using classical tools.

WHERE:         Rm 212, Samuel Building,  University  of  New
               South Wales. Enter off Botany Street, stop at
               gate and  ask  grey  men  for  day  pass  and
               instructions.  Park  in  the main car park on
               your left.  The Samuels bulding is  the  gray
               building   directly  behind  the  gates  with
               strange shield-like objects over the windows.

INQUIRIES:     timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Menzies)

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