Studying How Innate Motivations Can Drive Skill Acquisition in Cognitive Robots

  1. Alejandro Romero 1
  2. Francisco Bellas 1
  3. Jose A. Becerra 1
  4. Richard J. Duro 1
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

Libro:
XoveTIC 2019: The 2nd XoveTIC Conference (XoveTIC 2019), A Coruña, Spain, 5–6 September
  1. Alberto Alvarellos González (ed. lit.)
  2. José Joaquim de Moura Ramos (ed. lit.)
  3. Beatriz Botana Barreiro (ed. lit.)
  4. Javier Pereira Loureiro (ed. lit.)
  5. Manuel F. González Penedo (ed. lit.)

Editorial: MDPI

ISBN: 978-3-03921-444-0 978-3-03921-443-3

Año de publicación: 2019

Congreso: XoveTIC (2. 2019. A Coruña)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

Resumen

In this paper, we address the problem of how to bootstrap a cognitive architecture to opportunistically start learning skills in domains where multiple skills can be learned at the same time. To this end, taking inspiration from a series of computational models of the use of motivations in infants, we propose an approach that leverages two types of cognitive motivations: exploratory and proficiency based, the latter modulated by the concept of interestingness as an implementation of attentional mechanisms. This approach is tested in an illustrative experiment with a real robot.