ベビー・ソフィア：自己接触と手の注視による自己探求の発達的アプローチ
Baby Sophia: A Developmental Approach to Self-Exploration through Self-Touch and Hand Regard
乳児の発達に着想を得て、強化学習によりロボットが自己接触と手の注視を自律的に学習するフレームワークを提案し、好奇心ベースの内的報酬だけで協調的なマルチモーダル学習が可能なことを示した。
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著者: Stelios Zarifis, Ioannis Chalkiadakis, Artemis Chardouveli, Vasiliki Moutzouri, Aggelos Sotirchos, Katerina Papadimitriou, Panagiotis Filntisis, Niki Efthymiou, Petros Maragos, Katerina Pastra
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.LG
原文アブストラクト
Inspired by infant development, we propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for autonomous self-exploration in a robotic agent, Baby Sophia, using the BabyBench simulation environment. The agent learns self-touch and hand regard behaviors through intrinsic rewards that mimic an infant's curiosity-driven exploration of its own body. For self-touch, high-dimensional tactile inputs are transformed into compact, meaningful representations, enabling efficient learning. The agent then discovers new tactile contacts through intrinsic rewards and curriculum learning that encourage broad body coverage, balance, and generalization. For hand regard, visual features of the hands, such as skin-color and shape, are learned through motor babbling. Then, intrinsic rewards encourage the agent to perform novel hand motions, and follow its hands with its gaze. A curriculum learning setup from single-hand to dual-hand training allows the agent to reach complex visual-motor coordination. The results of this work demonstrate that purely curiosity-based signals, with no external supervision, can drive coordinated multimodal learning, imitating an infant's progression from random motor babbling to purposeful behaviors.
