Title
Parameterless-Growing-Som And Its Application To A Voice Instruction Learning System
Abstract
An improved self-organizing map (SOM), parameterless-growing-SOM (PL-G-SOM), is proposed in this paper. To overcome problems existed in traditional SOM (Kohonen, 1982), kinds of structure-growing-SOMs or parameter-adjusting-SOMs have been invented and usually separately. Here, we combine the idea of growing SOMs (Bauer and Villmann, 1997; Dittenbach et al. 2000) and a parameterless SOM (Berglund and Sitte, 2006) together to be a novel SOM named PL-G-SOM to realize additional learning, optimal neighborhood preservation, and automatic tuning of parameters. The improved SOM is applied to construct a voice instruction learning system for partner robots adopting a simple reinforcement learning algorithm. User's instructions of voices are classified by the PL-G-SOM at first, then robots choose an expected action according to a stochastic policy. The policy is adjusted by the reward/punishment given by the user of the robot. A feeling map is also designed to express learning degrees of voice instructions. Learning and additional learning experiments used instructions in multiple languages including Japanese, English, Chinese, and Malaysian confirmed the effectiveness of our proposed system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1155/2010/307293
JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Robot learning,Computer science,Self-organizing map,Automatic tuning,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Reinforcement learning algorithm,Error-driven learning,Machine learning
Journal
2010
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1687-9600
6
0.56
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Kuremoto119627.73
Takahito Komoto260.56
Kunikazu Kobayashi317321.96
Masanao Obayashi419826.10