Goal-directed imitation for robots: A bio-inspired approach to action understanding and skill learning

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 353-360

  Erlhagen, W ^a   Mukovskiy, A ^a   Bicho, E ^a   Panin, G ^b   Kiss, C ^b   Knoll, A ^b   van Schie, H ^c   Bekkering, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action sequence; Dynamic field; Imitation learning; Mirror neurons

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOTORS; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ACTION SEQUENCES; DYNAMIC FIELDS; IMITATION LEARNING; MIRROR NEURONS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 33646154200     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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