XPERIENCE

R. Piltaver, M. Gams, A. Ude

XPERIENCE – Robots Bootstrapped through Learning from Experience

Short description, main aims and objectives of the project:

The goal of Xperience project is to study generative mechanisms which are key in increasing bandwidth and speed of cognitive development. Current artificial cognitive systems are limited in this respect as they do not yet make efficient use of such generative mechanisms for the extension of their cognitive properties. We will address this problem by structural bootstrapping, which is a method of building generative models, leveraging existing experience to predict unexplored action effects and to focus the hypothesis space for learning novel concepts. This developmental approach enables rapid generalization and acquisition of new knowledge and skills from little additional training data.