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JIRS
2007
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Walking Control Algorithm of Biped Humanoid Robot on Uneven and Inclined Floor
This paper describes walking control algorithm for the stable walking of a biped humanoid robot on an uneven and inclined floor. Many walking control techniques have been develope...
Jung-Yup Kim, Ill-Woo Park, Jun-Ho Oh
KI
2008
Springer
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Visual-Based Emotion Detection for Natural Man-Machine Interaction
Abstract. The demand for humanoid robots as service robots for everyday life has increased during the last years. The processing power of the hardware and the development of comple...
Samuel Strupp, Norbert Schmitz, Karsten Berns
ENGL
2008
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Tactile Sensing-Based Control Architecture in Multi-Fingered Arm for Object Manipulation
This report presents the development of tactile sensing-based control architecture in a multi-fingered humanoid robot arm for object manipulation tasks. With the aim to enhance the...
Hanafiah B. Yussof, Masahiro Ohka, Hirofumi Suzuki...
AROBOTS
2008
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Human friendship estimation model for communication robots
Based on the analysis of non-verbal inter-human interaction, this paper proposes a model for estimating human friendships in the presence of a humanoid robot. Our previous study i...
Takayuki Kanda, Shogo Nabe, Kazuo Hiraki, Hiroshi ...
AAAI
2010
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Task Space Behavior Learning for Humanoid Robots using Gaussian Mixture Models
In this paper a system was developed for robot behavior acquisition using kinesthetic demonstrations. It enables a humanoid robot to imitate constrained reaching gestures directed...
Kaushik Subramanian
HIS
2003
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Cooperative Transportation by Humanoid Robots: Learning to Correct Positioning
In this paper, we describe a cooperative transportation problem with two humanoid robots and introduce a machine learning approach to solving the problem. The difficulty of the ta...
Yutaka Inoue, Takahiro Tohge, Hitoshi Iba
DAGSTUHL
2003
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Robot Bouncing: On the Synergy Between Neural and Body-Environment Dynamics
The study of how infants strapped in a Jolly Jumper learn to bounce can help clarify how they explore different ways of exploiting the dynamics of their movements. In this paper, ...
Max Lungarella, Luc Berthouze
DAGSTUHL
2003
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A Human-Like Robot Hand and Arm with Fluidic Muscles: Biologically Inspired Construction and Functionality
Humanoid robots are fascinating from two points of view, firstly their construction and secondly because they lend life to inanimate objects. The combination of biology and robots ...
Ivo Boblan, Rudolf Bannasch, Hartmut Schwenk, Fran...
IJCAI
2007
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Learning to Walk through Imitation
Programming a humanoid robot to walk is a challenging problem in robotics. Traditional approaches rely heavily on prior knowledge of the robot's physical parameters to devise...
Rawichote Chalodhorn, David B. Grimes, Keith Groch...
AAAI
2010
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Online Learning of Uneven Terrain for Humanoid Bipedal Walking
We present a novel method to control a biped humanoid robot to walk on unknown inclined terrains, using an online learning algorithm to estimate in real-time the local terrain fro...
Seung-Joon Yi, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Daniel D. Lee