Patent attributes
An apparatus and methods for training and/or operating a robotic device to perform a target task autonomously. The target task execution may be configured based on analysis of sensory context by the robot. Target action may comprise execution of two or more mutually exclusive actions for a given context. The robotic device may be operable in accordance with a persistent switching process. For a given sensor input, the switching process may be trained to select one of two or more alternative actions based on a prior action being executed. Switching process operation may comprise assigning priorities to the available tasks based on the sensory context; the task priorities may be modified during training based on input from a trainer. The predicted task priorities may be filtered by a “persistent winner-take-all process configured to switch from a current task to another task based on the priority breaching a switching threshold.
