Adaptive control of unstable simulated robot, Soccer 2

In Video 4 the ability of the adaptive controller to use contextual information representing the state of environment is demonstrated. The task of the controller is to learn to anticipate the hit of a soccer ball that is thrown towards it. First it does not "understand" the meaning of the approaching ball (see Video 3). However, the controller slowly learns that the contextual input signals representing the approaching ball predict a hefty hit. It learns how to react to avoid falling over. The physics, robot and the arena are implemented using Webots software (http://www.cyberbotics.com/ ). More details and the controller implementation at http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/eas/compneuro/projects/

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• Adaptive
• predictive
• control
• cerebellum
• feedback
• error
• learning
• reflex
• simulated
• robot
• play
• soccer
• football

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Wow, That's cool!