A nonparametric Bayesian approach toward robot learning by demonstration

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 789-802

  Chatzis, Sotirios P ^a   Korkinof, Dimitrios ^a   Demiris, Yiannis ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Gaussian mixture regression; Nonparametric statistics; Robot learning by demonstration; Variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET PROCESS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS; ROBOT LEARNING BY DEMONSTRATION; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECTS; INFERENCE ENGINES; ROBOT LEARNING;

DEMONSTRATIONS;

EID: 84859432221     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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