General description:

The Playground Experiment aims at showing how a robot equiped with an intrinsic motivation system, and in particular artificial curiosity, can explore its environment autonomously and develop skills which were not pre-specified, and with an increasing complexity for an extended period of time.


Selected publications:

Oudeyer P-Y, Kaplan , F. and Hafner, V. (2007) Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2),  pp. 265--286.DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2006.890271

Kaplan F., Oudeyer P-Y. (2006) Comment les robots construisent leur monde, in proceedings of Sony CSL 10th anniversary symposium, Paris.

Oudeyer P-Y., Kaplan F. (2006) Discovering Communication, Connection Science, 18(2), pp. 189--206
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The Playground experiment is a collective effort of researchers
at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.