A Motivational Architecture for Open-Ended Learning Challenges in Robots

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Autores principales: Romero, Alejandro, Baldassarre, Gianluca, Duro, Richard J., Santucci, Vieri Giuliano
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Publicado: 2025
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author Romero, Alejandro
Baldassarre, Gianluca
Duro, Richard J.
Santucci, Vieri Giuliano
author_facet Romero, Alejandro
Baldassarre, Gianluca
Duro, Richard J.
Santucci, Vieri Giuliano
contents Developing agents capable of autonomously interacting with complex and dynamic environments, where task structures may change over time and prior knowledge cannot be relied upon, is a key prerequisite for deploying artificial systems in real-world settings. The open-ended learning framework identifies the core challenges for creating such agents, including the ability to autonomously generate new goals, acquire the necessary skills (or curricula of skills) to achieve them, and adapt to non-stationary environments. While many existing works tackles various aspects of these challenges in isolation, few propose integrated solutions that address them simultaneously. In this paper, we introduce H-GRAIL, a hierarchical architecture that, through the use of different typologies of intrinsic motivations and interconnected learning mechanisms, autonomously discovers new goals, learns the required skills for their achievement, generates skill sequences for tackling interdependent tasks, and adapts to non-stationary environments. We tested H-GRAIL in a real robotic scenario, demonstrating how the proposed solutions effectively address the various challenges of open-ended learning.
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spellingShingle A Motivational Architecture for Open-Ended Learning Challenges in Robots
Romero, Alejandro
Baldassarre, Gianluca
Duro, Richard J.
Santucci, Vieri Giuliano
Robotics
Machine Learning
Developing agents capable of autonomously interacting with complex and dynamic environments, where task structures may change over time and prior knowledge cannot be relied upon, is a key prerequisite for deploying artificial systems in real-world settings. The open-ended learning framework identifies the core challenges for creating such agents, including the ability to autonomously generate new goals, acquire the necessary skills (or curricula of skills) to achieve them, and adapt to non-stationary environments. While many existing works tackles various aspects of these challenges in isolation, few propose integrated solutions that address them simultaneously. In this paper, we introduce H-GRAIL, a hierarchical architecture that, through the use of different typologies of intrinsic motivations and interconnected learning mechanisms, autonomously discovers new goals, learns the required skills for their achievement, generates skill sequences for tackling interdependent tasks, and adapts to non-stationary environments. We tested H-GRAIL in a real robotic scenario, demonstrating how the proposed solutions effectively address the various challenges of open-ended learning.
title A Motivational Architecture for Open-Ended Learning Challenges in Robots
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18454