From an engineering standpoint, the increasing complexity of robotic systems and the increasing demand for more autonomously learning robots, has become essenti

This book presents the state of the art in reinforcement learning applied to robotics both in terms of novel algorithms and applications. It discusses recent ap

From an engineering standpoint, the increasing complexity of robotic systems and the increasing demand for more autonomously learning robots, has become essenti

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) explores techniques for learning a task policy from examples provided by a human teacher. The field of LfD has grown into an e

The field of robotic vision has advanced dramatically recently with the development of new range sensors. Tremendous progress has been made resulting in signifi