Coaching to enhance the online behavior learning of a robotic agent

  • Authors:
  • Masakazu Hirokawa;Kenji Suzuki

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tsukuba, Japan;University of Tsukuba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel methodology for behavior learning of an agent, called "Coaching". This is an interactive learning method which allows a human trainer to give a subjective evaluation to the robotic agent in real time. and the agent can update the reward function dynamically based on the evaluation. We demonstrated that the agent is capable of learning the desired behavior by being given simple and subjective instruction such as "good and bad", The proposed approach is also effective when it is difficult to determine a suitable reward function for the learning situation in advance.