Introduction to Robot Learning

Abstract

In this chapter we provide an overview of the field of robot learning. We first discuss why robot learning is interesting and explain what is hard about it. We then characterize the robot learning problem and point out some major issues that need to be addressed. Next we survey some established techniques which are relevant to robot learning and then go on to review some of the recent research in robot learning. Finally, we briefly summarize the contents of the rest of the chapters in this book.