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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
A Robotic Walker that Provides Guidance
This paper describes a robotic walker designed as an assistive device for frail elderly people with cognitive impairment. Locomotion is most often the primary form of exercise for...
Aaron Morris, Raghavendra Donamukkala, Anuj Kapuri...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
MoonWalker, a lower limb exoskeleton able to sustain bodyweight using a passive force balancer
This paper presents MoonWalker, a lower limb exoskeleton able to sustain part of a user's bodyweight. This orthosis can be used for rehabilitation, to help people having weak ...
Sébastien Krut, Michel Benoit, Etienne Domb...
AAAI
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Teleassistance: Contextual Guidance for Autonomous Manipulation
We present teleassistance, a two-tiered control structure for robotic manipulation that combines the advantages of autonomy and teleoperation. At the top level, a teleoperator pro...
Polly K. Pook, Dana H. Ballard
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Reinforcement Learning with Human Teachers: Evidence of Feedback and Guidance with Implications for Learning Performance
As robots become a mass consumer product, they will need to learn new skills by interacting with typical human users. Past approaches have adapted reinforcement learning (RL) to a...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Cynthia Breazeal
ICRA
2009
IEEE
148views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 days ago
Active guidance of a handheld micromanipulator using visual servoing
²In microsurgery, a surgeon often deals with anatomical structures of sizes that are close to the limit of the human hand accuracy. Robotic assistants can help to push beyond the ...
Brian C. Becker, Sandrine Voros, Robert A. MacLach...