News: Deadline extended to July 12
News: Springer book chapter invitation for ERLARS authors
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ERLARS 2009
2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
EVOLUTIONARY AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS
Held in conjunction with IROS 2009 in St. Louis, USA on October 15, 2009
Submission deadline: July 12, 2009 (extended!)
http://www.erlars.org/2009/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Objectives
Learning is essential for an autonomous robot system. The range of
unexpected situations it can handle while performing its task depends on
its ability to adapt. Recent developments have taken autonomous robots
beyond industrial settings, for example at home as toys and cleaners.
However, production models usually interact with their environment
following a fixed control strategy, which limits their range of
application. More adaptable robots require control strategies that learn
more and better from interactions with their environment. The ERLARS
workshop addresses the challenge to develop efficient and versatile
learning architectures for autonomous robot systems, with the main focus
on adequate evolutionary and reinforcement learning algorithms.
Relevant Topics
Papers are invited on all aspects of learning methods for the control of
autonomous robot systems, including, but not limited to:
* Model-free visual servoing
* Mobile robot navigation by means of reinforcement learning
* Combining offline- and online learning methods for robot control
* Reinforcement learning by evolutionary algorithms of neural
network-based and other robot controllers
* Hybrid systems that combine modelling and parameter estimation by
reinforcement learning
* Learning from scratch and cascaded learning architectures
* Developmental and epigenetic robotics
* Balancing exploration and exploitation of acquired knowledge
* Simulated environments for autonomous robot learning scenarios
Important Dates
* July 12, 2009: Paper submission deadline (extended!)
* August 10, 2009: Notification of paper acceptance
* August 23, 2009: Camera ready paper submission
* October 15, 2009: Workshop takes place
Springer book chapter
Selected ERLARS 2009 articles will appear in an edited book in the Springer
Studies in Computational Intelligence series. Please see the call for
papers
on our website for details
(http://www.erlars.org/2009/
Workshop Chairs
Nils T Siebel
Cognitive Systems Group, Institute of Computer Science,
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Kiel, Germany
Josef Pauli
Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Computer Science,
University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany
Programme Committee
Andrew Barto (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Peter Dürr (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Christian Igel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Yohannes Kassahun (DFKI Lab Bremen, University of Bremen, Germany)
Takanori Koga (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
Tim Kovacs (University of Bristol, UK)
Jun Ota (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Josef Pauli (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Jan Peters (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany)
Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK)
Marcello Restelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Stefan Schiffer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Juergen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland)
Marc Toussaint (TU Berlin, Germany)
Nils T Siebel (Christian-Albrechts-
Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham, UK)
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
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More information on the workshop website: http://www.erlars.org/2009/
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