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The traditional approach to implement motor behaviour in a robot required a programmer to carefully decide the joint velocities at each timestep. By using the principle of learning by imitation, the robot can instead be taught simply by showing it what to do. This paper investigates the self-organization of a connectionist modular architecture for motor learning and control that is used to imitate human dancing. We have observed that the internal representation of a motion behaviour tends to be captured by more than one module. This supports the hypothesis that a modular architecture for motor learning is capable of self-organizing the decomposition of a movement.
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Tidemann, A., Öztürk, P. (2007). Self-organizing Multiple Models for Imitation: Teaching a Robot to Dance the YMCA. In: Okuno, H.G., Ali, M. (eds) New Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4570. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73325-6_29
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