On learning, representing, and generalizing a task in a humanoid robot

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

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 286-298

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

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Human motion subspace; Human robot interaction (HRI); Learning by imitation; Metric of imitation; Programming by demonstration (PbD)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; DEMONSTRATIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); HUMAN MOTION SUBSPACE; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION (HRI); LEARNING BY IMITATION; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION (PBD);

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; CYBERNETICS; HUMAN; IMITATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; CYBERNETICS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047173490     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.886952     Document Type: Article

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