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Chapter 5

Apprenticeship Learning

for Cyber-Physical

System Intelligence

Kassie McCarley, Joseph Pierson, and Fei Hu

5.1 Introduction

Mankind’s ability to learn and progress their knowledge of a topic has allowed man to consistently

achieve things thought to be unobtainable. For decades, machines have been programmed to

achieve certain constrained tasks. How revolutionary would it be if machines could actively learn

and apply new understandings to better carry out those tasks? Perhaps apprenticeship learning

could provide a means to greatly impact the ability of a robot, a typical CPS that has the interac-