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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Locomoting with Less Computation but More Morphology
– Biped walking is one of the most graceful movements observed in humans. Today’s humanoid robots, despite their undeniably impressive performance, are still a long way from th...
Kojiro Matsushita, Max Lungarella, Chandana Paul, ...
ACHI
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expres
– The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project t...
Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson
ICRA
2009
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots
— This work adds the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the humanoid robot iCub. The objects are defined as clusters of SIFT visual features. When th...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
The Role of Expressiveness and Attention in Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract— This paper presents the results of an experiment in human-robot social interaction. Its purpose was to measure the impact of certain features and behaviors on people’...
Allison Bruce, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Reid G. Simmon...
IJHR
2008
119views more  IJHR 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Imitation Learning of Dual-Arm Manipulation Tasks in Humanoid Robots
In this paper, we deal with imitation learning of arm movements in humanoid robots. Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are used to generalize movements demonstrated to a robot multiple tim...
Tamim Asfour, Pedram Azad, Florian Gyarfas, Rü...