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SAB
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Internal Models in the Cerebellum: A Coupling Scheme for Online and Offline Learning in Procedural Tasks
The cerebellum plays a major role in motor control. It is thought to mediate the acquisition of forward and inverse internal models of the bodyenvironment interaction [1]. In this ...
Jean-Baptiste Passot, Niceto Luque, Angelo Arleo
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Optimal Feedback Control for anthropomorphic manipulators
— We study target reaching tasks of redundant anthropomorphic manipulators under the premise of minimal energy consumption and compliance during motion. We formulate this motor c...
Djordje Mitrovic, Sho Nagashima, Stefan Klanke, Ta...
AAMAS
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Making Complex Articulated Agents Dance
We discuss the tradeo s involved in control of complex articulated agents, and present three implemented controllers for a complex task: a physically-based humanoid torso dancing ...
Maja J. Mataric, Victor B. Zordan, Matthew M. Will...
AAI
1999
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13 years 4 months ago
Animated Agents for Procedural Training in Virtual Reality: Perception, Cognition, and Motor Control
This paper describes Steve, an animated agent that helps students learn to perform physical, procedural tasks. The student and Steve cohabit a three-dimensional, simulated mock-up...
Jeff Rickel, W. Lewis Johnson
ALIFE
2000
13 years 4 months ago
Duplication of Modules Facilitates the Evolution of Functional Specialization
The evolution of simulated robots with three different architectures is studied in this article. We compare a nonmodular feed-forward network, a hardwired modular, and a duplicatio...
Raffaele Calabretta, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Paris...
JMLR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Learning to Combine Motor Primitives Via Greedy Additive Regression
The computational complexities arising in motor control can be ameliorated through the use of a library of motor synergies. We present a new model, referred to as the Greedy Addit...
Manu Chhabra, Robert A. Jacobs
AI50
2006
13 years 8 months ago
AI in Locomotion: Challenges and Perspectives of Underactuated Robots
Abstract. This article discusses the issues of adaptive autonomous navigation as a challenge of artificial intelligence. We argue that, in order to enhance the dexterity and adapti...
Fumiya Iida, Rolf Pfeifer, André Seyfarth
CHI
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Measuring the allocation of control in a 6 degree-of-freedom docking experiment
Coordination definitions and metrics are reviewed from the motor control, biomedical, and human factors literature. This paper presents an alternative measurement called the M-met...
Maurice R. Masliah, Paul Milgram
GW
2003
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Gesture Analysis: Invariant Laws in Movement
This paper presents gesture analysis under the scope of motor control theory. Following the motor program view, some studies have revealed a number of invariant features that chara...
Sylvie Gibet, Jean-François Kamp, Franck Po...
IROS
2007
IEEE
172views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Motor control optimization of compliant one-legged locomotion in rough terrain
— While underactuated robotic systems are capable of energy efficient and rapid dynamic behavior, we still do not fully understand how body dynamics can be actively used for ada...
Fumiya Iida, Russ Tedrake