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MP Deisenroth and CE Rasmussen
Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Motor Control
in 10th International PhD Workshop on Systems and Control, September 2009, Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic.

Artificial learners often require many more trials than humans or animals when learning motor control tasks in the absence of expert knowledge. We implement two key ingredients of biological learning systems, generalization and incorporation of uncertainty into the decision-making process, to speed up artificial learning. We present a coherent and fully Bayesian framework that allows for efficient artificial learning in the absence of expert knowledge. The success of our learning framework is demonstrated on challenging nonlinear control problems in simulation and in hardware.

MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany