Learning to manipulate articulated objects in unstructured environments using a grounded relational representation

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 254-261

  Katz, Dov ^a   Pyuro, Yuri ^a   Brock, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ARTICULATED OBJECT; INTERACTION SKILLS; KINEMATIC STRUCTURES; LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; RELATIONAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; RELATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS; STATE REPRESENTATION; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 84960108554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.15607/rss.2008.iv.033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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