Reinforcement Learning is a theoretical framework for optimizing the behavior of artificial agents. The notion that behavior in the natural world is in some sense optimal is explored by areas such as biomechanics and physical anthropology. These fields propose a variety of candidate optimality criteria as possible formulations of the principles underlying natural motion. Recent developments in computational biomechanics allow us to create articulated models of living creatures with a significant degree of biological realism. I aim to bring these elements together in my research by using Reinforcement Learning to generate optimized behavior in biomechanical simulations. Such a generative approach will allow us to examine critically postulated optimality criteria and investigate hypotheses that cannot be easily studied in the real world.

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I intend to use RL to bring the two together, The Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent interacts with a dynamical and generate motion from the proposed first principles system whose states capture all the relevant information in realistic biomechanical models, and compare the about the current configuration of the agent and its results to the behavior of living creatures. This is a nontrivial environment. By specifying a sequence of actions, the agent problem: biomechanical models are continuous, highdimensional alters the state transitions of this dynamical system. The optimality and nonlinear, and the optimality criteria considered criterion is formalized by a reward function defined in the literature are non-quadratic. In order to address over state-action pairs, and the agent's goal is to maximize these profound challenges, I propose three basic principles the cumulative reward.