- Deep learning (DL) is a new research track within the field of machine learning, building architectures consisting of multiple layers of representations in order to learn high level abstractions.
- Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most promising AI paradigms for the future development of autonomous robots. RL allows a robot to learn from trial-and-error interactions with its environment.
- DL can be used as a strong perception model of the environment.
- RL is used as the learning paradigm for controling robot's actions.
- The combination of DL and RL allows a learning agent to control a system based only on visual inputs, using a deep neural network to extract relevant features from the images.