Autonomous Development of a Grounded Object Ontology by a Learning Robot

We describe how a physical robot can learn about objects from its own autonomous experience in the continuous world. The robot identifies statistical regularities that allow it to represent a physical object with a cluster of sensations that violate a static world model, track that cluster over time, extract percepts from that cluster, form concepts from similar percepts, and learn reliable actions that can be applied to objects. We present a formalism for representing the ontology for objects and actions, a learning algorithm, and the results of an evaluation with a physical robot.

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