Robotic clicker training

✍ Scribed by Frédéric Kaplan; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer; Enikö Kubinyi; Adám Miklósi

• Book ID: 104357045
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-8890
• DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8890(02)00168-9

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, we want to propose the idea that some techniques used for animal training might be helpful for solving human-robot interaction problems in the context of entertainment robotics. We present a model for teaching complex actions to an animal-like autonomous robot based on "clicker training", a method used efficiently by professional trainers for animals of different species. After describing our implementation of clicker training on an enhanced version of AIBO, Sony's four-legged robot, we argue that this new method can be a promising technique for teaching unusual behavior and sequences of actions to a pet robot.