Question: Can we train a robot like a dog?

Some techniques used for animal training might be helpful for solving human robot interaction problems in the context of entertainment robotics. We present a model for teaching complex actions to an animal-like autonomous robot based on “clicker training”, a method used efficiently by professional trainers for animals of different species. Our implementation of clicker training on an enhanced version of AIBO, Sony’s four-legged robot, suggests that this new method can be a promising technique for teaching unusual behavior and sequences of actions to a pet robot.

Participants: Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, and Eniko Kubinyi and Adam Miklosi from the Ethology Department of the Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary)

Tags: Developmental Robotics

References

Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. Clicker training sessions with an animal-like robot. Advances in Ethology (Supplements to Ethology), 36, 2001.

Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. Robotic clicker training. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3-4):197-206 2002.

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