Robot Learning

Eduardo Morales

National Institute for Astrophysiscs, Optics and Electronics, Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico.

Robot Learning is a currently very active research area as it promises to create more flexible, independent and autonomous robots. It also opens the possibility, for non-experts, to instruct a robot how to perform different tasks without the need of programming. In this short tutorial we will review some of the current main techniques used in robot learning and show some of their applications. In particular, we will focused this tutorial in reinforcement learning and programming by demonstration, but we will also review some techniques used in visual concept learning and other machine learning techniques that can be used in robotics.