Mimicking and evaluating human motion to improve the imitation skill of children with autism through a robot

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-357

  Fujimoto, Isao ^a   Matsumoto, Tohru ^a   de Silva, P Ravindra S ^a   Kobayashi, Masakazu ^a   Higashi, Masatake ^a  

^a NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children with autism; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robot; Imitation skill; Motion planning; Robot mimicry

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL ROBOTS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MOTION PLANNING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; CLUSTER-BASED; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HUMAN MOTIONS; HUMANOID ROBOT; IMITATION SKILL; Q-LEARNING APPROACH; SPECIFIC TASKS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84857515170     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-011-0116-9     Document Type: Article

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