The hype about sensorimotor learning is currently reaching high fever, thanks to the latest advancement in deep learning. In this paper, we present an open-source framework for collecting large-scale, time-synchronised synthetic data from highly disparate sensory modalities, such as audio, video, and proprioception, for learning robot manipulation tasks. We demonstrate the learning of non-linear sensorimotor mappings for a humanoid drumming robot that generates novel motion sequences from desired audio data using cross-modal correspondences. We evaluate our system through the quality of its cross-modal retrieval, for generating suitable motion sequences to match desired unseen audio or video sequences.
@article{arxiv.1907.09775,
title = {Multisensory Learning Framework for Robot Drumming},
author = {A. Barsky and C. Zito and H. Mori and T. Ogata and J. L. Wyatt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09775},
year = {2019}
}