Statistical learning by imitation of competing constraints in joint space and task space

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2059-2076

  Calinon, Sylvain ^a   Billard, Aude ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture regression; Inverse kinematics; Kinesthetic teaching; Learning by imitation; Robot programming by demonstration

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE REGRESSION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; JACOBIANS; JOINT SPACE; KINESTHETIC TEACHING; LAGRANGE OPTIMIZATION; LEARNING BY IMITATION; MANIPULATION TASK; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL LEARNING; TASK CONSTRAINTS; TASK SPACE;

DEMONSTRATIONS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MIXTURES; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70449585082     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918609X12529294461843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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