Learning tactile skills through curious exploration

We present curiosity-driven, autonomous acquisition of tactile exploratory skills on a biomimetic robot finger equipped with an array of microelectromechanical touch sensors. Instead of building tailored algorithms for solving a specific tactile task, we employ a more general curiosity-driven reinfo...

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Main Authors: Leo ePape, Calogero Maria eOddo, Marco eControzzi, Christian eCipriani, Alexander eFörster, Maria Chiara eCarrozza, Jürgen eSchmidhuber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbot.2012.00006/full