Discovering optimal imitation strategies

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 69-77

  Billard, Aude ^a,b   Epars, Yann ^a   Calinon, Sylvain ^a   Schaal, Stefan ^b   Cheng, Gordon ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Humanoids; Imitation learning; Optimization

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SET THEORY;

HUMANOIDS; IMITATION LEARNING; OPTIMAL CONTROL STRATEGY; ZERO-VELOCITY CROSSING;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 2942523202     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2004.03.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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