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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Balance Control of a Humanoid Robot Based on the Reaction Null Space Method
— A humanoid robot should be able to keep its balance even in the presence of disturbing forces. Studies of human body reaction patterns to sudden external forces are useful to d...
Akinori Nishio, Kentaro Takahashi, Dragomir N. Nen...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Learning Sensory-Motor Maps for Redundant Robots
— Humanoid robots are routinely engaged in tasks requiring the coordination between multiple degrees of freedom and sensory inputs, often achieved through the use of sensorymotor...
Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Motion Planning of Emergency Stop for Humanoid Robot by State Space Approach
— A motion planner of emergency stop must make an operating humanoid robot to a stationary state under the emergency signal. It plays an important role in prevention of falling o...
Mitsuharu Morisawa, Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro, ...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Modulation of Simple Sinusoidal Patterns by a Coupled Oscillator Model for Biped Walking
— We show that a humanoid robot can step and walk using simple sinusoidal desired joint trajectories with their phase adjusted by a coupled oscillator model. We use the center of...
Jun Morimoto, Gen Endo, Jun Nakanishi, Sang-Ho Hyo...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Online Environment Reconstruction for Biped Navigation
— As navigation autonomy becomes an increasingly important research topic for biped humanoid robots, efficient approaches to perception and mapping that are suited to the unique...
Philipp Michel, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami,...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration
— Robot Programming by Demonstration (RbD) covers methods by which a robot learns new skills through human guidance. In this work, we take the perspective that the role of the tea...
Sylvain Calinon, Aude Billard
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Real-time acoustic source localization in noisy environments for human-robot multimodal interaction
— Interaction between humans involves a plethora of sensory information, both in the form of explicit communication as well as more subtle unconsciously perceived signals. In ord...
Vlad M. Trifa, Ansgar Koene, Jan Morén, Gor...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Design and evaluation of a gravity compensation mechanism for a humanoid robot
— Performance of a human size humanoid robot is strictly limited by performance of the motor. The progress of a motor has not been remarkable compared with the progress of electr...
Satoru Shirata, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama
IROS
2007
IEEE
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GPU-accelerated real-time 3D tracking for humanoid locomotion and stair climbing
— For humanoid robots to fully realize their biped potential in a three-dimensional world and step over, around or onto obstacles such as stairs, appropriate and efficient appro...
Philipp Michel, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami,...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Improving humanoid locomotive performance with learnt approximated dynamics via Gaussian processes for regression
Abstract— We propose to improve the locomotive performance of humanoid robots by using approximated biped stepping and walking dynamics with reinforcement learning (RL). Although...
Jun Morimoto, Christopher G. Atkeson, Gen Endo, Go...