A new developmental framework could allow robots to optimize hyper
Researchers at Ecole Centrale de Lyon have recently devised a new developmental framework inspired by the long-term memory and reasoning mechanisms of humans. This framework, outlined in a paper presented at IEEE ICDL-Epirob in Tokyo and pre-published on arXiv, allows robots to autonomously optimize hyper-parameters tuned from any action and/or vision module, which are treated as a black box. In recent years, researchers have built robots that can complete a variety of tasks. Nonetheless, the environment in which these robots operate is often somewhat constrained. This is because in robotics, most algorithms are crafted and optimized manually by human experts to anticipate the potential challenges that the robot might encounter within a given situation.