(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009)
Cakmak, Maya; DePalma, Nick; Thomaz, Andrea L.; Arriaga, Rosa I.
Social learning in robotics has largely focused
on imitation learning. Here we take a broader view and
are interested in the multifaceted ways that a social partner
can influence the learning process. We implement four social
learning mechanisms on a robot: stimulus enhancement, emulation,
mimicking, and imitation, and illustrate the computational
benefits of each. In particular, we illustrate that some strategies
are about directing the attention of the learner to objects and
others are about actions. Taken together these strategies form
a rich repertoire allowing social learners to use a social partner
to greatly impact their learning process. We demonstrate these
results in simulation and with physical robot ‘playmates’.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009)
Cakmak, Maya; DePalma, Nick; Arriaga, Rosa I.; Thomaz, Andrea L.
Social learning in robotics has largely focused on
imitation learning. In this work, we take a broader view of
social learning and are interested in the multifaceted ways that a
social partner can influence the learning process. We implement
stimulus enhancement and emulation on a robot, and illustrate the
computational benefits of social learning over individual learning.
Additionally we characterize the differences between these two
social learning strategies, showing that the preferred strategy
is dependent on the current behavior of the social partner. We demonstrate these learning results both in simulation and with
physical robot ‘playmates’.