An Incremental Growing Neural Network and its Application to Robot Control
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Control A. Carlevarino, R. Martinotti, G. Metta and G. Sandini Lira Lab – DIST – University of Genova Via Opera Pia, 13 – 16145 Genova, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This paper describes a novel network model, which is able to control its growth on the basis of the approximation requests. Two classes of self-tuning neural models are considered; namely Growing Neural Gas (GNG) and SoftMax function networks. We combined the two models into a new one: hence the name GNG-Soft networks. The resulting model is characterized by the effectiveness of the GNG in distributing the units within the input space and the approximation properties of SoftMax functions. We devised a method to estimate the approximation error in an incremental fashion. This measure has been used to tune the network growth rate. Results showing the performance of the network in a real-world robotic experiment are reported.
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