@COMMENT This file was generated by bib2html.pl version 0.94 @COMMENT written by Patrick Riley @COMMENT This file came from Freek Stulp's publication pages at @COMMENT http://www-clmc.usc.edu/~stulp/publications @InProceedings{stulp11learningmotion, title = {Learning Motion Primitive Goals for Robust Manipulation}, author = {Freek Stulp and Evangelos Theodorou and Mrinal Kalakrishnan and Peter Pastor and Ludovic Righetti and Stefan Schaal}, booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Applying model-free reinforcement learning to manipulation remains challenging for several reasons. First, manipulation involves physical contact, which causes discontinuous cost functions. Second, in manipulation, the end-point of the movement must be chosen carefully, as it represents a grasp which must be adapted to the pose and shape of the object. Finally, there is uncertainty in the object pose, and even the most carefully planned movement may fail if the object is not at the expected position. To address these challenges we 1)~present a simplified, computationally more efficient version of our model-free reinforcement learning algorithm PI2; 2)~extend PI2 so that it simultaneously learns shape parameters \emph{and} goal parameters of motion primitives; 3)~use shape and goal learning to acquire motion primitives that are robust to object pose uncertainty. We evaluate these contributions on a manipulation platform consisting of a 7-DOF arm with a 4-DOF hand.}, bib2html_accrate = {32\%}, bib2html_pubtype = {Refereed Conference Paper}, bib2html_rescat = {Reinforcement Learning of Robot Skills} }