Explauto: an open-source Python library to study autonomous exploration in developmental robotics

Abstract

The Explauto library provides a common platform to the Developmental Robotics community allowing the integration and comparison of various exploration strategies driving various sensorimotor learning algorithms in various simulated or robotics systems. Many other exploration strategies could be easily integrated into the library, as for example Direction Sampling [7], compression progress [4], empowerment [8] and thus be compared in a proper way on various sensorimotor systems and using various sensorimotor internal models.