— Few robot tasks require as forceful an interaction with the world as excavation. In order to effectively plan its actions, our robot excavator requires a method that allows it ...
This paper describes a new approach on how to teach a robot everyday manipulation tasks under the “Learning from Observation” framework. Most of the approaches so far assume t...
Koichi Ogawara, Jun Takamatsu, Hiroshi Kimura, Kat...
This paper explores the issue of recognizing, generalizing and reproducing arbitrary gestures. We aim at extracting a representation that encapsulates only the key aspects of the ...
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
We apply evolutionary algorithm (EA) to the design of controller for adaptive robots. EAs can be successful for more complicated tasks, where traditional engineering methods strugg...