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Developmental Robotics: and the importance of Psychology

Developmental Robotics: and the importance of Psychology. Mark Lee mhl@aber.ac.uk. Aberystwyth, Wales. Acknowledgements. Martin H ülse , Tao Geng , Mike Sheldon, James Wilson, Patricia Shaw, James Law, Sebastian McBride Fei Chao, Qinggang Meng , Tom Izzett …

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Developmental Robotics: and the importance of Psychology

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  1. Developmental Robotics: and the importance of Psychology Mark Lee mhl@aber.ac.uk

  2. Aberystwyth, Wales

  3. Acknowledgements • Martin Hülse, Tao Geng, Mike Sheldon, James Wilson, Patricia Shaw, James Law, Sebastian McBride • Fei Chao, QinggangMeng, Tom Izzett … • And partners in Reverb, Rossi, Im-CleVeR … Funding: EPSRC (DVL & Reverb) EC FP7 (Rossi & ImCleVr)

  4. Advanced Robotics: Key requirements • Adaptive behaviour • Cumulative learning from experience • Autonomous handling of new situations • Growth of competence • Key words: Autonomy & Growth

  5. Premises • No really intelligent robots yet exist • Classical AI has been insufficient • Development is essential for human learning • Development may be essential for robot learning if we wish to capture similar performance

  6. Biologically Inspired Robotics • Anatomical- structural and process models of systems • Evolutional- growth and change within a species • Developmental - adaptive growth and change in the individual

  7. Inspiration from Alan Turing “Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education, one would obtain the adult brain [...]” A.M. Turing, Mind, 59, 433-460, 1950

  8. Key issues and observations • Stages (in behaviour) • Constraints – many sources • Shaping – by constraint & interaction • Cumulative learning • Intrinsic motivation • Intrinsic activity (motor babbling) • Goal-free or goal-driven

  9. Motor babbling and Play • Motor activity: • - produces inputs from sensors • - provokes the environment • gives new viewpoints • Infant play - Essential behaviour

  10. Infant play

  11. Motor babbling in infants • sucking • eye movements • head rolling • facial expressions • body and limb kicking actions • reaching • touching

  12. Our approach • Use salience array for stimuli selection • Motor babbling when quiescent • When actions correlate with stimulus, try to repeat exact action • Noise and natural variation will test extent of new stimulus/action correlation. • Those correlations that withstand repeated action can be recorded in mappings, associations, or other means.

  13. Our framework Computational substrate: sensory-motor mappings Bidirectional linking of SM maps, learned through Hebbian correspondence Produces egocentric SM space

  14. Learning sensor-motor mappings Learning saccadic eye movements retina space relative gaze space With Fei Chao

  15. Learning sensor-motor mappings Hand-eye coordination abs. gaze space reach space 2.0 +/- 1.0 cm With Martin Hülse, Sebastian McBride

  16. Implemented on iCub robot

  17. Infant (to iCub) development Survey and study of literature on infant development Constructed a timeline of activity from conception to 12 months Prepared similar development chart for iCub Constructed constraint network and identified dependencies

  18. Infant vision development

  19. Infant vision development • Increase in image resolution (birth to 12 months) • Widening field of view (6-10 weeks, 20-40 degrees) • Increased sensitivity to stimulus (birth to 6 months) • Increased Image transfer rate (birth to 3 months) • Increased focal range (1 to 2 months), initially ~21cm • Increased colour resolution (birth to 4 months) • Stereopsis onset and improvement (3 to 12 months) • Migration of rods and cones – At birth the distribution of rods and cones is roughly uniform, with migration to adult positions occurring over the first 11 years. Fastest migration occurs 2-3 months after birth.

  20. Partial development sequence for an iCub - motor aspects

  21. A constraint network

  22. Behaviour on the iCub robot

  23. Integrated architecture retina Saccadic eye movements gaze

  24. Integrated architecture head Head and eye movements Hand-eye coordination gaze

  25. Integrated architecture retina gaze Arm movements Hand regard Hand-eye coordination reach

  26. Integrated architecture retina gaze Hand movement Grasp control reach grasp

  27. Integrated architecture retina two arm coordination visual memory gaze reach reach grasp

  28. Stages seen infollowing video 1 – early eye saccade learning 2 – later part of above stage 3 – early head movement learning 4 – better head control at later part of above stage 5 – hand regard behaviour (combining gaze and reach spaces) 6 – Early reaching (plus hand regard) 7 – Reaching with stimulus lights included 8 – more accurate reaching?

  29. Developmental growth in iCub

  30. iCub development Initial learning trials • Eye saccades 4 minutes 25 fixations • Head rotation 9 minutes 45 fixations • Arm reaching 10 minutes 22 locations

  31. Consequences Play and babbling – notrandom behaviour, nota side-effect of learning Goals can be created – not given (where would they come from?) Solitary and socialshaping - both vital Akey principle for autonomous development?

  32. Advantages of this Approach • Intrinsic activity: significant principle • Autonomous, generates experience • Unsupervised,incremental, continuous and cumulative learning • Self calibration • Shaping: main interaction mode • Efficient: very fast learning/adapting

  33. The Future ? Two types of robot: • Developmental • Task based

  34. The Future ? • No programming - only training (in the world) • Customised in situ. • Experience resides in systems, but all different, (sets of individuals). service centre = robot remedial school, programs of corrective shaping. But we can also examine brain! so transferable skills?

  35. Thank you for your Attention!

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