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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
HRP-2 plays the yoyo: From human to humanoid yoyo playing using optimal control
— Yoyo playing may seem easy for a human, but it is a challenging problem for a humanoid robot. This paper presents an approach to generate yoyo motions for the humanoid robot, H...
Katja Mombaur, Manish N. Sreenivasa
HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The advisor robot: tracing people's mental model from a robot's physical attributes
Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in peopleâ...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler
ICRA
2005
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
Abstract— Our work aims at developing a robust discriminant controller for robot programming by demonstration. It addresses two core issues of imitation learning, namely “what to...
Sylvain Calinon, Florent Guenter, Aude Billard
IROS
2007
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Improving humanoid locomotive performance with learnt approximated dynamics via Gaussian processes for regression
Abstract— We propose to improve the locomotive performance of humanoid robots by using approximated biped stepping and walking dynamics with reinforcement learning (RL). Although...
Jun Morimoto, Christopher G. Atkeson, Gen Endo, Go...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
I would choose the other card: humanoid robot gives an advice
This article reports on a user study conducted to asses the credibility of a humanoid robot. The study set-up was based on the "Monty Hall Problem". Overall 13 people be...
Astrid Weiss, Roland Buchner, Thomas Scherndl, Man...