Correspondence mapping induced state and action metrics for robotic imitation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-307

  Alissandrakis, Aris ^a   Nehaniv, Chrystopher L ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correspondence problem; Imitation and social learning; Programming by demonstration; State and action metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATRIX ALGEBRA; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

ACTION METRICS; CORRESPONDENCE MAPPING; ROBOTIC IMITATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; STATE METRICS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYBERNETICS; HUMAN; IMITATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYBERNETICS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047141030     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.886947     Document Type: Article

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