[Amdnl] [meetings] Call for NeurIPS REAL competition

[Vieri Giuliano Santucci]

Dear Colleagues,

The GOAL-Robots consortium (http://www.goal-robots.eu/) is glad to announce
the REAL (Robot open-Ended Autonomous Learning) competition, which will be
part of the NeurIPS 2019 competition track (
https://nips.cc/Conferences/2019/CompetitionTrack).

The competition addresses the topic of autonomous open-ended learning, and
in particular is focused on systems that:
(a) acquire sensorimotor competence that allows them to interact with
objects and physical environments;
(b) learn in a fully autonomous way, i.e. with no human intervention, on
the basis of mechanisms such as curiosity, intrinsic motivations, task-free
reinforcement learning, self-generated goals, and any other mechanism that
might support autonomous learning.

The objective of REAL is to:
(a) track the state-of-the-art in robot open-ended autonomous learning;
(b) foster research and the proposal of new solutions to the many problems
posed by open-ended learning;
(c) favour the development of benchmarks in the field

The systems submitted to the competition will undergo a two-phase life
where during a first ‘intrinsic phase’ the system will have a certain time
to freely explore and learn in the environment, and then during an
`extrinsic phase’ the quality of the autonomously acquired knowledge will
be measured with multiple tasks.

The competition is based on a PyBullet fast simulator that can be easily
installed on own computer through the software Starting Kit (
https://github.com/GOAL-Robots/REALCompetitionStartingKit). The simulator
involves a robotic arm with gripper and a camera, and a working table
containing objects to manipulate.

Submissions will be open from August the 7th. For further and more specific
details please refer to the competition website (
https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/robot-open-ended-autonomous-learning-real
).

The following contacts are available for further information:
Emilio Cartoni emilio.cartoni at istc.cnr.it
Sharada Mohanty mohanty at aicrowd.com
Gianluca Baldassarre gianluca.baldassarre at istc.cnr.it

Best regards,
Vieri Giuliano Santucci


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Vieri Giuliano Santucci

Laboratory of Computational Embodied Neuroscience (LOCEN),
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC),
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR),
Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Roma, Italy
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