Machine Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion
Machine Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion.
Nate Kohl and Peter
Stone.
In The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 611–616, July 2004.
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Abstract
For a robot, the ability to get from one place to another is one of the most basic skills. However, locomotion on legged robots is a challenging multidimensional control problem. This paper presents a machine learning approach to legged locomotion, with all training done on the physical robots. The main contributions are a specification of our fully automated learning environment and a detailed empirical comparison of four different machine learning algorithms for learning quadrupedal locomotion. The resulting learned walk is considerably faster than all previously reported hand-coded walks for the same robot platform.
BibTeX Entry
@InProceedings(AAAI04,
author="Nate Kohl and Peter Stone",
title="Machine Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion",
year="2004",month="July",
booktitle="The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
pages="611--616",
abstract={
For a robot, the ability to get from one place to
another is one of the most basic skills. However,
locomotion on legged robots is a challenging
multidimensional control problem. This paper
presents a machine learning approach to legged
locomotion, with all training done on the physical
robots. The main contributions are a specification
of our fully automated learning environment and a
detailed empirical comparison of four different
machine learning algorithms for learning quadrupedal
locomotion. The resulting learned walk is
considerably faster than all previously reported
hand-coded walks for the same robot platform.
},
)
