Autonomous skill acquisition on a mobile manipulator

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1468-1473

  Konidaris, George ^a,c   Kuindersma, Scott ^b,c   Grupen, Roderic ^b   Barto, Andrew ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE MANIPULATOR; ROBOT SYSTEM; SKILL ACQUISITION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MANIPULATORS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 80055049318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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