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2011
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Imitation Learning of Positional and Force Skills Demonstrated via Kinesthetic Teaching and Haptic Input
A method to learn and reproduce robot force interactions in a Human-Robot Interaction setting is proposed. The method allows a robotic manipulator to learn to perform tasks which ...
Petar Kormushev, Sylvain Calinon, Darwin G. Caldwe...
AR
2011
13 years 1 days ago
A Direct Physical Interface for Navigation and Positioning of a Robotic Nursing Assistant
People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person’s posture for a task (e.g., a dance in...
Tiffany L. Chen, Charles C. Kemp
AR
2011
13 years 2 days ago
Learning, Generation and Recognition of Motions by Reference-Point-Dependent Probabilistic Models
This paper presents a novel method for learning object manipulation such as rotating an object or placing one object on another. In this method, motions are learned using referenc...
Komei Sugiura, Naoto Iwahashi, Hideki Kashioka, Sa...
AR
2011
13 years 2 days ago
Real-Time Pose-Invariant Face Recognition Using the Efficient Second-Order Minimization and the Pose Transforming Matrix
We propose a real-time pose invariant face recognition algorithm from a gallery of frontal images only. First, we modified the second order minimization method for active appearan...
Hyun-Chul Choi, Se-Young Oh