Some Experiments on the influence of Problem Hardness in Morphological Development based Learning of Neural Controllers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05817v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:23:25 GMT
• Title: Some Experiments on the influence of Problem Hardness in Morphological Development based Learning of Neural Controllers
• Authors: M.Naya-Varela (1), A. Faina (2) and R. J. Duro (3) ((1) Universidade da Coruna, (2) IT University of Copenhagen)
• Abstract summary: This paper seeks to provide some insights into how morphological development can be harnessed in order to facilitate learning. In particular, here we will concentrate on whether morphological development can really provide any advantage when learning complex tasks and whether its relevance towards learning in-creases as tasks become harder.
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• Abstract: Natural beings undergo a morphological development process of their bodies while they are learning and adapting to the environments they face from infancy to adulthood. In fact, this is the period where the most important learning pro-cesses, those that will support learning as adults, will take place. However, in artificial systems, this interaction between morphological development and learning, and its possible advantages, have seldom been considered. In this line, this paper seeks to provide some insights into how morphological development can be harnessed in order to facilitate learning in em-bodied systems facing tasks or domains that are hard to learn. In particular, here we will concentrate on whether morphological development can really provide any advantage when learning complex tasks and whether its relevance towards learning in-creases as tasks become harder. To this end, we present the results of some initial experiments on the application of morpho-logical development to learning to walk in three cases, that of a quadruped, a hexapod and that of an octopod. These results seem to confirm that as task learning difficulty increases the application of morphological development to learning becomes more advantageous.

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