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(2007) Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2), pp. 265--286.  \nIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, VOL. 11, NO. 2, APRIL 2007 265  \nIntrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous  \nMental Development  \nPierre-Yves Oudeyer, Frédéric Kaplan, and Verena V. Hafner  \nAbstract—Exploratory activities seem to be intrinsically rewarding for children and crucial for their cognitive development. Can a machine be endowed with such an intrinsic motivation system? This is the question we study in this paper, presenting a number of computational systems that try to capture this drive towards novel or curious situations. After discussing related research coming from developmental psychology, neuroscience, developmental robotics, and active learning, this paper presents the mechanism of Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity, an intrinsic motivation system which pushes a robot towards situations in which it maximizes its learning progress. This drive makes the robot focus on situations which are neither too predictable nor too unpredictable, thus permitting autonomous mental development. The complexity of the robot’s activities autonomously increases and complex developmental sequences self-organize without being constructed in a supervised manner. Two experiments arepresented illustrating the stage-like organization emerging with this mechanism. In one of them, a physical robot is placed on a baby play mat with objects that it can learn to manipulate. Experimental results show that the robot first spends time in situations which are easy to learn, then shifts its attention progressively to situations of increasing difficulty, avoiding situations in which nothing can be learned. Finally, these various results are discussed in relation to more complex forms of behavioral organization and data coming from developmental psychology.  \nIndex Terms—Active learning, autonomy, behavior, complexity, curiosity, development, developmental trajectory, epigenetic robotics, intrinsic motivation, learning, reinforcement learning, values.  \nI. THE CHALLENGE OF AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT  \nALL humans develop in an autonomous open-ended manner  \nthrough lifelong learning. So far, no robot has this capacity. Building such a robot is one of the greatest challenges to robotics today, and is the long-term goal of the growing field of developmental robotics [1], [2] . This paper explores a possible route towards such a goal. Our approach is inspired by developmental psychology and our ambition is to build systems featuring some of the fundamental aspects of an infant’s development. More precisely, two remarkable properties of human infant development inspire us.  \nManuscript received March 30, 2005; revised October 3, 2005 . This work was supported in part by the ECAGENTS project founded by the Future and Emerging Technologies Program (IST-FET) of the European Community under EU R&D Contract IST-2003-1940 .  \nP.-Y. Oudeyer is with the Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris 6, rue Amyot 75005, Paris, France (e-mail: [oudeyer@csl.sony.fr](oudeyer@csl.sony.fr)).  \nF. Kaplan is with CRAFT-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland (e-mail: frederic.kaplan@epfl.ch) .  \nV. V. Hafner is with the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, Amyot 75005, Paris, France (e-mail: [hafner@csl.sony.fr](hafner@csl.sony.fr)) and also with DAI Labor, 10587 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: [vvh@ieee.org](vvh@ieee.org)).  \nColor versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org).  \nDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/TEVC.2006.890271  \nA. Development is Progressive and Incremental  \nFirst of all, development involves the progressive increase of the complexity of the activities of children with an associated increase of their capabilities. Moreover, infants’ activities ","cbCairEfXXdwCdB9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairEfXXdwCdB9","pdf",1253549,22,"English","# Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development\n## The Challenge of Autonomous Mental Development\n## Development is Progressive and Incremental","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the paper address about robots and mental development?\",\"answer\":\"The paper asks whether a robot can be given an intrinsic motivation system enabling autonomous, open-ended mental development through lifelong learning.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity mechanism?\",\"answer\":\"It is an intrinsic motivation system that pushes a robot toward situations that maximize its learning progress, avoiding cases that are too predictable or too unpredictable.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the experiments illustrate the proposed developmental process?\",\"answer\":\"A physical robot is placed on a baby play mat with learnable objects; it first focuses on easy-to-learn situations, then progressively shifts to more difficult ones while avoiding situations where nothing can be learned.\"}]","Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development | PDF",1790329524,55]