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Skinnerbots This project is no longer active. Head: David S Touretzky Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC Associated labs/groups: Tekkotsu Lab, Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab, Human-Robot Interaction Group, and Robot Learning Lab For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

We are developing computational theories of operant conditioning. While classical (Pavlovian) conditioning has a well-developed theory, implemented in the Rescorla-Wagner model and its descendants (work by Sutton & Barto, Grossberg, Klopf, Gallistel, and others), there is at present no comprehensive theory of operant conditioning.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Greg Armstrong	Senior Research Technician, CS	roboman@andrew.cmu.edu
	Aaron Courville	PhD Student, RI
	Nathaniel Daw	PhD Student, CS	daw+@cs.cmu.edu
	Alok Ladsariya	Masters Student, CS	alokl@andrew.cmu.edu
	Lisa Saksida	PhD Student, RI
	Thomas Stepleton	PhD Student, RI	thomas.stepleton@cs.cmu.edu
	Ethan Tira-Thompson	PhD Student, RI	ejt+@andrew.cmu.edu
	David S Touretzky	Research Professor, CS	dst@cs.cmu.edu

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

• Tekkotsu: A Rapid Development Framework for Robotics
  E. Tira-Thompson
  master's thesis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4218 KB] copyrighted