Discriminative and adaptive imitation in uni-manual and bi-manual tasks

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 370-384

  Billard, Aude G ^a   Calinon, Sylvain ^a   Guenter, Florent ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discriminative imitation; HMM; Humanoid robots; Kinesthetic teaching; Lagrange optimization; Learning

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; ROBOTS; TEACHING; TRAJECTORIES;

DISCRIMINATIVE IMITATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); HUMANOID ROBOTS; KINESTHETIC TEACHING; LAGRANGE OPTIMIZATION;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33646162402     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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