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Aaron Courville
PhD Student

No longer a member of RI.

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Past Labs & Groups

Tekkotsu Lab - Tekkotsu is an application development framework for robotics that supports high level robot programming, drawing inspiration from ideas in cognitive science. Our target platform is the Sony AIBO.

Past Projects

Skinnerbots - Trainable robots using operant conditioning.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• A Generative Model of Terrain for Autonomous Navigation in Vegetation
  C. Wellington, A. Courville, and A. Stentz
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 25, No. 12, December, 2006, pp. 1287 - 1304. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [7307 KB] copyrighted

• A Latent Cause Model of Classical Conditioning
  A. Courville
  doctoral dissertation, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [26368 KB] copyrighted

• Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection
  C. Wellington, A. Courville, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, June, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3208 KB] copyrighted

• Model uncertainty in classical conditioning
  A. Courville, N.D. Daw, G. Gordon, and D.S. Touretzky
  Advances in NeuralInformation Processing 16, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

• Timing and partial observability in the dopamine system
  N. Daw, A. Courville, and D.S. Touretzky
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, S. Becker, S. Thrun, and K. Obermayer, ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [105 KB] copyrighted

• Dopamine and inference about timing
  N. Daw, A. Courville, and D.S. Touretzky
  Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Development and Learning, 2002, pp. 271 - 276. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [146 KB] copyrighted

• Modeling temporal structure in classical conditioning
  A. Courville and D.S. Touretzky
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, T. Dietterich, S. Becker, and Z. Ghahramani, ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [184 KB] copyrighted