The robot engineer

© 2015, CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.We described preliminary work on designing a "robot engineer". Somewhat similar to the idea of a robot scientist, the robot engineer is a closed-loop system that designs tools for a robot, and even complete robots, that are tested in simulation, manufac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sammut, C., Sheh, Raymond, Haber, A., Wicaksono, H.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52481
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Summary:© 2015, CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.We described preliminary work on designing a "robot engineer". Somewhat similar to the idea of a robot scientist, the robot engineer is a closed-loop system that designs tools for a robot, and even complete robots, that are tested in simulation, manufactured and realised using 3D printing. The artefact is then evaluated on real-world tasks, feeding back to the original design. The system builds on ILP techniques originally developed for learning tool use by a robot. These are extended with methods for transforming the functional specification produced by the ILP system into a design that is suitable for manufacture.