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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2003.10B.7.795

A study on environmental adaptation and expansion of intelligent agent  

Baek, Hae-Jung (숭실대학교 대학원 컴퓨터학과)
Park, Young-Tack (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Abstract
To live autonomously, intelligent agents such as robots or virtual characters need ability that recognizes given environment, and learns and chooses adaptive actions. So, we propose an action selection/learning mechanism in intelligent agents. The proposed mechanism employs a hybrid system which integrates a behavior-based method using the reinforcement learning and a cognitive-based method using the symbolic learning. The characteristics of our mechanism are as follows. First, because it learns adaptive actions about environment using reinforcement learning, our agents have flexibility about environmental changes. Second, because it learns environmental factors for the agent's goals using inductive machine learning and association rules, the agent learns and selects appropriate actions faster in given surrounding and more efficiently in extended surroundings. Third, in implementing the intelligent agents, we considers only the recognized states which are found by a state detector rather than by all states. Because this method consider only necessary states, we can reduce the space of memory. And because it represents and processes new states dynamically, we can cope with the change of environment spontaneously.
Keywords
Intelligent Agent; Reinforcement Learning; Symbolic Learning; Hybrid System; Action Selection/Learning;
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