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...
Our group builds robots to operate in natural, social environments. The challenge of interacting with humans constrains how our robots appear physically, how they move, how they p...
Cynthia Breazeal, Aaron Edsinger, Paul M. Fitzpatr...
—This paper introduces a new approach to develop robots that can learn general affordance relations from their experiences. Our approach is a part of larger efforts to develop a ...
Erdem Erdemir, Carl B. Frankel, Kazuhiko Kawamura,...
— We present an active learning algorithm for the problem of body schema learning, i.e. estimating a kinematic model of a serial robot. The learning process is done online using ...
Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesan...
Policy Learning approaches are among the best suited methods for high-dimensional, continuous control systems such as anthropomorphic robot arms and humanoid robots. In this paper,...