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EGITALY
2011
14 years 5 months ago
Gestural Interaction for Robot Motion Control
Recent advances in gesture recognition made the problem of controlling a humanoid robot in the most natural possible way an interesting challenge. Learning from Demonstration fie...
Giuseppe Broccia, Marco Livesu, Riccardo Scateni
HRI
2009
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Learning about objects with human teachers
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Maya Cakmak
ICMI
2009
Springer
188views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2009»
15 years 3 months ago
Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features
Affect sensitivity is of the utmost importance for a robot companion to be able to display socially intelligent behaviour, a key requirement for sustaining long-term interactions ...
Ginevra Castellano, André Pereira, Iolanda ...
IROS
2007
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
15 years 12 months ago
Modeling and motion planning for handling furniture by a mobile manipulator
— This paper introduces a planning method for handling furniture which exists in real world. We propose a method which is easily expandable its handle able furniture such as clos...
Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Takashi Tsubouchi, Masahiro To...
IROS
2008
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 12 months ago
Learning nonparametric policies by imitation
— A long cherished goal in artificial intelligence has been the ability to endow a robot with the capacity to learn and generalize skills from watching a human teacher. Such an ...
David B. Grimes, Rajesh P. N. Rao