Evaluation of a probabilistic approach to learn and reproduce gestures by imitation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2671-2676

  Calinon, Sylvain ^a   Sauser, Eric L ^b   Billard, Aude G ^b   Caldwell, Darwin G ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BUILD TIME; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; HUMAN GESTURES; HUMAN MOTIONS; INDEPENDENT MODEL; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; ROBUST MODELS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TABLE TENNIS RACKET;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955837312     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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