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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.

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.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Lisa Saksida - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Thomas Stepleton - PhD Student, RI <thomas.stepleton@cs.cmu.edu>
• Ethan Tira-Thompson - PhD Student, RI <ejt+@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] David S Touretzky - Research Professor, CS <dst@cs.cmu.edu>

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