The Playground Experiment aims at showing how a robot equipped with an intrinsic motivation system, and in particular artificial curiosity, can explore its environment autonomously and develop skills which were not pre-specified, and with an increasing complexity for an extended period of time.

Links: the homepage of the playground experiment

Participants: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Frédéric Kaplan, Verena V. Hafner and A. White

Participants: Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Verena Hafner, Andrew Whyte

Tags: Developmental Robotics

References

Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan, F. Discovering Communication. Connection Science, 18(2):189-206 2006.

Oudeyer, P-Y., Kaplan, F. and Hafner, V. Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2):265-286 2007.

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