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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization
— Recent advances in the field of humanoid robotics increase the complexity of the tasks that such robots can perform. This makes it increasingly difficult and inconvenient to ...
Manuel Mühlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Safe fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping
—Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which ra...
Seung-kook Yun, Ambarish Goswami, Yoshiaki Sakagam...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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A two-steps next-best-view algorithm for autonomous 3D object modeling by a humanoid robot
— A novel approach is presented which aims at building autonomously visual models of unknown objects, using a humanoid robot. Although good methods have been proposed for the spe...
Torea Foissotte, Olivier Stasse, Adrien Escande, P...
ACHI
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
3D Audio Perception System for Humanoid Robots
An audio system is one of the basic components of a humanoid robot designed for natural interaction. For many interaction purposes it is sufficient to use the sound detection and...
Norbert Schmitz, Carsten Spranger, Karsten Berns
HRI
2010
ACM
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Cooperative gestures: effective signaling for humanoid robots
Abstract—Cooperative gestures are a key aspect of humanhuman pro-social interaction. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that endowing humanoid robots with the ability to use such g...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Paul Bremner...