Projet de recherche doctoral numero :4279

Description

Date depot: 1 janvier 1900
Titre: Robots constructing representations from experience
Directeur de thèse: Stéphane DONCIEUX (ISIR (EDITE))
Domaine scientifique: Sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication
Thématique CNRS : Non defini

Resumé: Designing algorithms that provide robots or agents with autonomy is often a complicated and tedious endeavor. To make it easier, many learning algorithms exist that can optimize over time the parameters of the mapping from perceptions to actions, with the objective to increase some measure of the quality of the behavior, like for instance the ability to collect a reward. However, the mapping from perceptions to actions has most of the time a fixed structure, with some internal representations that are not modified during learning. The success of the learning process depends largely on these representations, and it would be desirable for learning algorithms to have the ability to infer appropriate representations directy from experience. The goal of the proposed PhD is to explore different research directions for the automated construction of representations via an a posteriori analysis of sensori-motor traces.

Doctorant.e: Merckling Astrid