Jan Peters

Kevin Wallace

An on-the-page gallery features five hundred examples of bowls made by contemporary artists using a wide range of woodworking approaches, from chainsaw and chisel to bandsaw and router.

Bold & Original Designs Blending Tradition & Innovation

500 Wood Bowls

Boris Belousov

Hany Abdulsamad

Pascal Klink

Simone Parisi

This book reviews research developments in diverse areas of reinforcement learning such as model-free actor-critic methods, model-based learning and control, information geometry of policy searches, reward design, and exploration in biology and the behavioral sciences. Special emphasis is placed on advanced ideas, algorithms, methods, and applications. The contributed papers gathered here grew out of a lecture course on reinforcement learning held by Prof. Jan Peters in the winter semester 2018/2019 at Technische Universität Darmstadt. The book is intended for reinforcement learning students and researchers with a firm grasp of linear algebra, statistics, and optimization. Nevertheless, all key concepts are introduced in each chapter, making the content self-contained and accessible to a broader audience.

Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: Analysis and Applications

Olivier Sigaud

From an engineering standpoint, the increasing complexity of robotic systems and the increasing demand for more autonomously learning robots, has become essential. This book is largely based on the successful workshop “From motor to interaction learning in robots” held at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems. The major aim of the book is to give students interested the topics described above a chance to get started faster and researchers a helpful compandium.

From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots

Peter Hagendorf

In 1988 Jan Peters discovered a diary-like manuscript of a mercenary from the Thirty Years War. In the course of 24 years, this soldier covered 22,400 km across the whole of Europe. He revealed nothing about his name, age or origin. Research on his life is challenging: some things that are of interest today were never recorded. Much has been lost. It was only when a document was found in Muhlhausen, Thuringia, that the name of the mercenary was definitively clarified to be Peter Hagendorf. This volume contains the complete text of his diary. Observations on the author's journey through life, his way of life and his values put his life into the context of the events of the time and allow access to the everyday world of the mercenary. Sober, but nevertheless moving, this Peter Hagendorf describes his eventful military and family life. A fascinating authentic account, and a unique one, too. Antje Zeiger - Museum of the Thirty Years War, Wittstock.

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