Abstraction levels for robotic imitation: Overview and computational approaches

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 264, Issue , 2010, Pages 313-355

  Lopes, Manuel ^a   Melo, Francisco ^b   Montesano, Luis ^c   Santos Victor, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

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EID: 74049086730     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05181-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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