A survey of vision-based architectures for robot learning by imitation

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bandera, J P ^a   RodrIguez J A ^a   Molina Tanco, L ^a   Bandera, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

autonomous systems; Robot learning by imitation; social robots; visual perception

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; INPUT DATAS; LEARNING BY IMITATION; MONOLITHIC SYSTEMS; SENSORY INPUT; SOCIAL ROBOTS; STANDARD COMPONENTS; VISION BASED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ARCHITECTURE; ROBOT LEARNING; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84863806208     PISSN: 02198436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219843612500065     Document Type: Article

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