A robust reinforcement based self constructing neural network

Usually, many high-skilled human resources are required to create sophisticated control systems. Automatic generation of control systems can overcome these requirements. Because of their versatility and flexibility neural networks gained an important role for this task. While evolutionary methods have been relatively successful in generating neural networks, they have some limitations, in addition to being computationally expensive, because they rely on adapting populations instead of individuals. Reinforcement methods on the other hand can improve and adapt the behaviour of an individual; the reinforcement methods that are presented in this paper can grow a neural network during operation. We show that neural networks can be created for various domains without changing any parameters. Additionally, our neural network can learn the action selection policy and the value function locally within the neurons. These features make our neural network highly flexible and distinguish it from other reinforcement based constructive neural networks.