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AR
2011
14 years 4 months ago
Imitation Learning of Positional and Force Skills Demonstrated via Kinesthetic Teaching and Haptic Input
A method to learn and reproduce robot force interactions in a Human-Robot Interaction setting is proposed. The method allows a robotic manipulator to learn to perform tasks which ...
Petar Kormushev, Sylvain Calinon, Darwin G. Caldwe...
FGR
2008
IEEE
243views Biometrics» more  FGR 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Real-time face recognition for human-robot interaction
The ability to recognize people is a key element for improving human-robot interaction in service robots. There are many approaches for face recognition; however, these assume unr...
Claudia Cruz, Luis Enrique Sucar, Eduardo F. Moral...
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Natural methods for robot task learning: instructive demonstrations, generalization and practice
Among humans, teaching various tasks is a complex process which relies on multiple means for interaction and learning, both on the part of the teacher and of the learner. Used tog...
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
HRI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Managing social constraints on recharge behaviour for robot companions using memory
In this paper, we present an approach to monitor human activities such as entry, exit and break times of people in a workplace environment. The companion robot then learns the use...
Amol A. Deshmukh, Mei Yii Lim, Michael Kriegel, Ru...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Learning from human teachers with Socially Guided Exploration
— We present a learning mechanism, Socially Guided Exploration, in which a robot learns new tasks through a combination of self-exploration and social interaction. The system’s...
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz