Robots, skills, and symbols

  • Authors:
  • George Konidaris

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT CSAIL, Cambridge MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Perception, Action and Communication
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This extended abstract summarizes recent work on skill acquisition, which shows that autonomous robot skill acquisition is feasible, and that a robot can thereby improve its own problem-solving capabilities; and on the symbolic representation of plans composed of sequences of skills. It establishes a formal link between skills and symbols, and is aimed at allowing the bottom-up (or skill-first) development of robot control hierarchies.