Learning to Forage Through Imitation

摘要

This paper reports on a set of learning experiments which could be considered as first steps towards learning at different levels of a hierarchical approach to imitation learning. A learner robot knows a priori how to execute some behaviours but does not know when. By following a teacher robot through a series of experiences and through imitating the demonstrated behaviours, the learner robot learns when to execute each behaviour and subsequently learns how to forage. The performance of the learner as well as the factors that affect its performance are described.