Getting Xavier to use Self Acquired Knowledge. ------------------------------------------------ Joseph O'Sullivan Weh7220 3:30, 2rdMay95 The purpose of the talk will be familiarize all with some ongoing work I am carrying out in using self acquired knowledge to boost learning. Three strands of research which I am conducting will be presented; a) Learning better models of robot action (with Shumeet Baluja and Rich Caruana) b) Effectively using domain knowledge in learning (with Tom Mitchell) c) Integrating learning into Xavier via TCA (with Reid Simmons)