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CONTENTS                                                                                vii


                 8 Application Examples in the Robotics Domain                              107
                     8.1   Robot Finger Kinematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
                     8.2   The Inverse 6 D Robot Kinematics Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 112
                     8.3   Puma Kinematics: Noisy Data and Adaptation to Sudden
                          Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
                     8.4   Resolving Redundancy by Extra Constraints for the Kine-
                          matics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
                     8.5   Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123


                 9 “Mixture-of-Expertise” or “Investment Learning”                          125
                     9.1   Context dependent “skills” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
                     9.2   “Investment Learning” or “Mixture-of-Expertise” Architec-
                          ture . . ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... .. ... ... 127
                          9.2.1   Investment Learning Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                          9.2.2   One-shot Adaptation Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
                          9.2.3   “Mixture-of-Expertise” Architecture . . . . . . . . . . 128
                     9.3   Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
                          9.3.1   Coordinate Transformation with and without Hier-
                                  archical PSOMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
                          9.3.2   Rapid Visuo-motor Coordination Learning . . . . . . 132
                          9.3.3   Factorize Learning: The 3 D Stereo Case . . . . . . . . 136

                 10 Summary                                                                 139

                     Bibliography                                                           146
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