Curriculum learning for motor skills

  • Authors:
  • Andrej Karpathy;Michiel van de Panne

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia, Canada;University of British Columbia, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Canadian AI'12 Proceedings of the 25th Canadian conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Humans and animals acquire their wide repertoire of motor skills through an incremental learning process, during which progressively more complex skills are acquired and subsequently integrated with prior abilities. Inspired by this general idea, we develop an approach for learning motor skills based on a two-level curriculum. At the high level, the curriculum specifies an order in which different skills should be learned. At the low level, the curriculum defines a process for learning within a skill. We develop a set of integrated motor skills for a planar articulated figure capable of doing parameterized hops, flips, rolls, and acrobatic sequences. The same curriculum can be applied to yield individualized motor skill sets for articulated figures of varying proportions.