Can machines be taught? If so, what methods are useful for teaching
machines? Machine learning is a field focused on systems that can learn
through their own experiences and evaluation. Programmers could encode all
behaviors for a task, but this process quickly becomes limited to condensed
problems. Therefore, scientists have turned to methods with adaptability, taking
cues from biological systems (including the human brain) to solve more
complex problems in varied environments. This book describes two experiments
implementing supervised reinforcement learning on a real, mobile robot.
One...