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2021
Journal Articles
Customizing skills for assistive robotic manipulators, an inverse reinforcement learning approach with error-related potentials
Communications Biology. 2021-12-16. Vol. 4, num. 1, p. 1406. DOI : 10.1038/s42003-021-02891-8.Learning From Demonstration and Interactive Control of Variable-Impedance to Cut Soft Tissues
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2021-11-17. p. 1-12. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3123356.Hand-Object Interaction: From Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation
Frontiers In Robotics And Ai. 2021-10-01. Vol. 8, p. 714023. DOI : 10.3389/frobt.2021.714023.Virtual Landmark-Based Control of Docking Support for Assistive Mobility Devices
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2021-08-01. Vol. 26, num. 4, p. 2007-2015. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3081426.Hand pose selection in a bimanual fine-manipulation task
Journal of Neurophysiology. 2021-07-06. Vol. 126, num. 1, p. 195-212. DOI : 10.1152/jn.00635.2020.Design of Hesitation Gestures for Nonverbal Human-Robot Negotiation of Conflicts
Acm Transactions On Human-Robot Interaction. 2021-07-01. Vol. 10, num. 3, p. 24. DOI : 10.1145/3418302.Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas
International Journal of Social Robotics. 2021-06-21. DOI : 10.1007/s12369-021-00796-4.Real-Time Self-Collision Avoidance in Joint Space for Humanoid Robots
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2021-04-01. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1240-1247. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3057024.Reactive Navigation in Crowds for Non-holonomic Robots with Convex Bounding Shape
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-03-24. Vol. 6, num. 3, p. 4728-4735. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3068660.Learning dynamical systems with bifurcations
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2021-02-01. Vol. 136, p. 103700. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2020.103700.2020
Journal Articles
A dynamical system approach for detection and reaction to human guidance in physical human-robot interaction
Autonomous Robots. 2020-07-26. Vol. 44, p. 1411–1429. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-020-09934-9.Intent Prediction Based on Biomechanical Coordination of EMG and Vision-Filtered Gaze for End-Point Control of an Arm Prosthesis
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2020-05-06. Vol. 28, num. 6, p. 1471-1480. DOI : 10.1109/TNSRE.2020.2992885.Benchmark for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation of Semi-deformable Objects
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020-02-10. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 2443-2450. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972837.A versatile robotic platform for the design of natural, three-dimensional reaching and grasping tasks in monkeys
Journal Of Neural Engineering. 2020-02-01. Vol. 17, num. 1, p. 016004. DOI : 10.1088/1741-2552/ab4c77.An inverse optimization approach to understand human acquisition of kinematic coordination in bimanual fine manipulation tasks
Biological Cybernetics. 2020-02-01. Vol. 114, num. 1, p. 63-82. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-019-00814-9.Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unseen Containers with Unknown Filling
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020-01-24. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 1642-1649. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2969200.Conference Papers
From human action understanding to robot action execution: how the physical properties of handled objects modulate non-verbal cues
2020-10-26. 10Th Ieee International Conference On Development And Learning And Epigenetic Robotics (Icdl-Epirob 2020), Valparaiso, Chile (virtual conference), Octobre 26-30, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ICDL-EpiRob48136.2020.9278084.Control Interface for Hands-free Navigation of Standing Mobility Vehicles based on Upper-Body Natural Movements
2020-10-24. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA, 24 Oct.-24 Jan. 2021. p. 11322-11329. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340875.A Dynamical System Approach for Adaptive Grasping, Navigation and Co-Manipulation with Humanoid Robots
2020-06-01. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 31 May – 31 August 2020. p. 7676-7682. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197038.Arm-hand motion-force coordination for physical interactions with non-flat surfaces using dynamical systems: Toward compliant robotic massage
2020-05-31. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Paris, France, Virtual Conference, May 31-June 4, 2020. p. 4724-4730. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196593.Robot Mirroring: Promoting Empathy with an Artificial Agent by Reflecting the User’s Physiological Affective States
2020-01-01. 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), ELECTR NETWORK, Aug 31-Sep 04, 2020. p. 1328-1333. DOI : 10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223598.Force Adaptation in Contact Tasks with Dynamical Systems
2020. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Virtual Conference, May 31 – August 31 2020. p. 6841-6847. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197509.Reviews
Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration
Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. 2020. Vol. 3, num. 1, p. 297-330. DOI : 10.1146/annurev-control-100819-063206.Talks
Materializing Personal Standing Mobility from Design to Shared Control
CYBATHLON Symposium 2020, Virtual, Septembre 17, 2020.Effect of task conditions on human hand pose selection strategies in bimanual fine manipulation tasks
International Conference on Robotics and Automation – Workshop on Learning of Manual Skills in Humans and Robots (ICRA2020), Paris, France, May 31, 2020 – Aug 31, 2020.Physical Safety in Collisions Between Robots and Pedestrians
29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2020), Virtual Workshop, August 31, 2020.Datasets
Unscrewing Experiment Dataset
2020-05-28.2019
Journal Articles
Shared human–robot proportional control of a dexterous myoelectric prosthesis
Nature Machine Intelligence. 2019-09-11. Vol. 1, num. 9, p. 400-411. DOI : 10.1038/s42256-019-0093-5.Avoidance of Convex and Concave Obstacles with Convergence ensured through Contraction
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019-07-17. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1462-1469. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2893676.Trends and challenges in robot manipulation
Science. 2019. Vol. 364, num. 6446, p. eaat8414. DOI : 10.1126/science.aat8414.An ensemble inverse optimal control approach for robotic task learning and adaptation
Autonomous Robots. 2019. Vol. 43, p. 875–896. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-018-9757-y.A Dynamical System Approach to Task-Adaptation in Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Autonomous Robots. 2019. Vol. 43, num. 4, p. 927-946. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-018-9764-z.Conference Papers
On Force Synergies in Human Grasping Behavior
2019-10-15. IEEE-RAS 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Toronto, Canada, October 15-17, 2019. p. 72-78. DOI : 10.1109/Humanoids43949.2019.9035047.Four-Arm Manipulation via Feet Interfaces
2019-09-11. Fall Symposium Series of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 7-9, 2019. p. AI-HRI/2019/12.Reach-to-grasp motions: Towards a dynamic classification approach for upper-limp prosthesis
2019-03-25. 2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), San Francisco, California, USA, 20-23 March 2019. p. 287-290. DOI : 10.1109/NER.2019.8717110.A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks
2019-01-01. 15th Conference on Robotics – Science and Systems, Freiburg im Breisgau, GERMANY, Jun 22-26, 2019.Scalable closed-form trajectories for periodic and non-periodic human-like walking
2019-01-01. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, CANADA, May 20-24, 2019. p. 5295-5301. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793877.Evaluation of an Industrial Robotic Assistant in an Ecological Environment
2019. IEEE RoMan 2019 – The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, New Delhi, India, October 14-18, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956399.Inferring subjective preferences on robot trajectories using EEG signals
2019-01-01. 9th IEEE/EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), San Francisco, CA, Mar 20-23, 2019. p. 255-258. DOI : 10.1109/NER.2019.8717025.A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks
2019.Theses
From High-Level to Low-Level Robot Learning of Complex Tasks: Leveraging Priors, Metrics and Dynamical Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Improving the arm-hand coordination in neuroprosthetics control with prior information from muscle activity
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.From human-intention recognition to compliant control using dynamical systems in physical human-robot interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Posters
Towards Understanding of Human Kinematic Coordination Patterns in Bimanual Fine Manipulation Tasks
Progress in Motor Control XII: Movement Improvement, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 7-10, 2019.Reactive Motion Planning for Human-Robot Cooperative Tasks Under Uncertainties
RSS Workshop on Robust Task and Motion Planning, Freiburg, Germany, Sunday, June 23, 2019.Datasets
Spring Assembly Experiment Dataset
2019-05-21.2018
Journal Articles
Social babbling: The emergence of symbolic gestures and words
Neural Networks. 2018-10-01. Vol. 106, p. 194-204. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2018.06.016.Learning Augmented Joint-Space Task-Oriented Dynamical Systems:A Linear Parameter Varying and Synergetic Control Approach
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). 2018-05-06. Vol. 3, num. 3, p. 2718-2725. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2833497.A Dynamical System Based Approach for Controlling Robotic Manipulators During Non-contact/Contact Transitions
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018-05-04. Vol. 3, num. 4, p. 2738-2745. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2833142.A Unified Framework for Coordinated Multi-Arm Motion Planning
The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2018-03-22. Vol. 37, num. 10, p. 1205-1232. DOI : 10.1177/0278364918765952.Learning task manifolds for constrained object manipulation
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS. 2018. Vol. 42, num. 1, p. 159-174. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-017-9643-z.Does this robot have a mind? Schizophrenia patients’ mind perception toward humanoid robots
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH. 2018. Vol. 197, p. 585-586. DOI : 10.1016/j.schres.2017.11.034.Constraints extraction from asymmetrical bimanual tasks and their use in coordinated behavior
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS. 2018. Vol. 103, p. 222-235. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2017.12.011.Action Anticipation: Reading the Intentions of Humans and Robots
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 4, p. 4132-4139. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2861569.Decoding the Grasping Intention from Electromyography during Reaching Motions
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 2018. Vol. 15, p. 57. DOI : 10.1186/s12984-018-0396-5.Conference Papers
Stable Transitions from Free-space to Contact: A Dynamical System Based Approach
2018-09-04. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid,From Human Physical Interaction To Online Motion Adaptation Using Parameterized Dynamical Systems
2018-06-29. 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018. p. 1361-1366. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594366.Modeling Compositions of Impedance-based Primitives via Dynamical Systems.
2018-05-28.Multi-Arm Self-Collision Avoidance: A Sparse Solution for a Big Data Problem.
2018-05-28.Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?
2018-01-01. 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Chicago, IL, Mar 05-08, 2018. p. 41-49. DOI : 10.1145/3171221.3171274.A Physically-Consistent Bayesian Non-Parametric Mixture Model for Dynamical System Learning
2018. 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Zurich, Switzerland, October 29-31,2018.Boosting Robot Learning and Control with Domain Constraints
2018. Robotics: Science and Systems: RSS Pioneer Workshop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Jun 25-30, 2018.Theses
Compliant control of Uni/ Multi- robotic arms with dynamical systems
EPFL, 2018-05-14.Incorporating Human Expertise in Robot Motion Learning and Synthesis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018.Automatic extraction of constraints in manipulation tasks for autonomy and interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018.Posters
Intention-based motion adaptation using dynamical systems with human in the loop
IROS 2018 Workshop Machine Learning in Robot Motion Planning, Madrid, Spain, October 5th.2017
Journal Articles
Unravelling socio-motor biomarkers in schizophrenia
Npj Schizophrenia. 2017. Vol. 3, p. 8. DOI : 10.1038/s41537-016-0009-x.Influence of Facial Feedback and Mind Perception During a Cooperative Human-Robot Task in Schizophrenia
Scientific Reports. 2017. Vol. 7, p. 15023. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-14773-3.Learning motions from demonstrations and rewards with time-invariant dynamical systems based policies
Autonomous Robots. 2017. Vol. 42, num. 1, p. 45-64. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-017-9636-y.EMG-based decoding of grasp gestures in reaching-to-grasping motions
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2017. Vol. 91, p. 59-70. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2016.12.014.On the mechanical, cognitive and sociable facets of human compliance and their robotic counterparts
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2017. Vol. 88, p. 157-164. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2016.08.030.Conference Papers
Capture-Point Based Balance and Reactive Omnidirectional Walking Controller
2017. IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Birmingham, UK, November 15-17, 2017. p. 17-24. DOI : 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2017.8239532.Learning Stable Task Sequences from Demonstration with Linear Parameter Varying Systems and Hidden Markov Models
2017. robot-learning, Mountain View, California, November 13 – 15, 2017. p. 175-184.Learning Externally Modulated Dynamical Systems
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, September, 24-28. p. 3956-3963. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206248.Dynamical System-based Motion Planning for Multi-Arm Systems: Reaching for moving objects
2017. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017.Associate Latent Encodings in Learning from Demonstrations
2017. The Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, California, USA, Feb 4th-9th, 2017.Theses
Multi-contact tactile exploration and interaction with unknown objects
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.Posters
Effects of Facial Emotions on Social-motor Coordination in Schizophrenia
7th Joint Action Meeting, London, UK, July 22-25, 2017.2016
Journal Articles
Stability Considerations for Variable Impedance Control
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2016. Vol. 32, num. 5, p. 1298-1305. DOI : 10.1109/Tro.2016.2593492.Robotic Assistance by Impedance Compensation for Hand Movements While Manual Welding
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 2016. Vol. 46, num. 11, p. 2459-2472. DOI : 10.1109/Tcyb.2015.2478656.Hierarchical Fingertip Space: A Unified Framework for Grasp Planning and In-Hand Grasp Adaptation
Ieee Transactions On Robotics. 2016. Vol. 32, num. 4, p. 960-972. DOI : 10.1109/Tro.2016.2588879.Passive Interaction Control With Dynamical Systems
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2016. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 106-113. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2015.2509025.Multi-contact haptic exploration and grasping with tactile sensors
Robotics and autonomous systems. 2016. Vol. 85c, p. 48-61. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2016.08.007.A modular approach to learning manipulation strategies from human demonstration
Autonomous Robots. 2016. Vol. 40, num. 5, p. 903-927. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9501-9.Humanoid robots versus humans: how is emotional valence of facial expressions recognized by individuals with schizophrenia? An exploratory study
Schizophrenia Research. 2016. Vol. 76, num. 2-3, p. 506-513. DOI : 10.1016/j.schres.2016.06.001.Role of Gaze Cues in Interpersonal Motor Coordination: Towards Higher Affiliation in Human-Robot Interaction
Plos One. 2016. Vol. 11, num. 6, p. e0156874. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0156874.A Dynamical System Approach for Catching Softly a Flying Object: Theory and Experiment
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2016. Vol. 32, num. 2, p. 462-471. DOI : 10.1109/Tro.2016.2536749.Dexterous grasping under shape uncertainty
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2016. Vol. 75, p. 352-364. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.09.008.Conference Papers
Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services
2016. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Royal Inst Technol, Ctr Autonomous Syst, Stockholm, SWEDEN, MAY 16-21, 2016. p. 5380-5387. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487749.On the Evolution of Fingertip Grasping Manifolds
2016. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Royal Inst Technol, Ctr Autonomous Syst, Stockholm, SWEDEN, MAY 16-21, 2016. p. 2022-2029. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487349.Influence of Saliency and Social Impairments on the Development of Intention Recognition
2016. 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Barcelona, SPAIN, SEP 06-09, 2016. p. 205-213. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-44778-0_24.Towards Reproducing Humans’ Exquisite Dexterity and Reactivity
2016. 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND, MAR 07-10, 2016. p. 99-99. DOI : 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451739.Learning Complex Sequential Tasks from Demonstration: A Pizza Dough Rolling Case Study
2016. 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Christchurch, New Zealand, p. 611-612. DOI : 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451881.Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty (RSS 2016 Best Student Paper Award)
2016. 2016 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Arbor, Michigan, USA., June 20-22, 2016.Synthesizing Robotic Handwriting Motion by Learning from Human Demonstrations
2016. 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York City, New York, USA, July 9-15, 2016. p. 3530–3537.Theses
Learning Search Strategies from Human Demonstrations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Grasping for the Task
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Dynamic Grasp Adaptation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Book Chapters
Learning From Humans
Springer Handbook of robotics; Secaucus, NJ, USA: Springer, 2016. p. 1995-2014.2015
Journal Articles
Task Parameterization Using Continuous Constraints Extracted From Human Demonstrations
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2015. Vol. 31, num. 6, p. 1458-1471. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2015.2495003.Recognizing the grasp intention from human demonstration
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 74, p. 108-121. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.07.006.Robotic training for hand movements during manual welding with real-time alarm feedback
Industrial Robot-An International Journal. 2015. Vol. 42, num. 6, p. 554-564. DOI : 10.1108/Ir-04-2015-0083.A Modular Approach to Learning Manipulation Strategies from Human Demonstration
Autonomous Robots. 2015. p. 1-25. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9501-9.End-Point Impedance Measurements Across Dominant and Nondominant Hands and Robotic Assistance with Directional Damping
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 2015. Vol. 45, num. 6, p. 1146-1157. DOI : 10.1109/TCYB.2014.2346021.Motor-Primed Visual Attention for Humanoid Robots
Ieee Transactions On Autonomous Mental Development. 2015. Vol. 7, num. 2, p. 76-91. DOI : 10.1109/Tamd.2015.2417353.Incremental motion learning with locally modulated dynamical systems
Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 70, p. 52-62. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.03.010.Hand Impedance Measurements During Interactive Manual Welding With a Robot
Ieee Transactions On Robotics. 2015. Vol. 31, num. 1, p. 168-179. DOI : 10.1109/Tro.2014.2385212.On Computing Task-Oriented Grasps
Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 66, p. 145-158. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2014.11.016.Conference Papers
EMG-Based Analysis of the Upper Limb Motion
2015. 10nth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2-5, 2015. p. 49-50. DOI : 10.1145/2701973.2701997.EMG-based learning approach for estimating wrist motion
2015. 37th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Milan, Italy, 25 – 29 August 2015. p. 6732-6735. DOI : 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319938.From joint-attention to joint-action: Effects of gaze on human following motion
2015. 6th Joint Action Meeting (JAM 2015), Budapest, Hungary, 1-4 July 2015.Theses
Visuomotor Coordination in Reach-To-Grasp Tasks: From Humans to Humanoids and Vice Versa
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Control and Learning of Compliant Manipulation Skills
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Posters
Bidirectional Learning of Handwriting Skill in Human-Robot Interaction
10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2-5, 2015.2014
Journal Articles
Learning Compliant Manipulation through Kinesthetic and Tactile Human-Robot Interaction
Ieee Transactions On Haptics. 2014. Vol. 7, num. 3, p. 367-380. DOI : 10.1109/Toh.2013.54.A Wearable Camera Detects Gaze Peculiarities during Social Interactions in Young Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Ieee Transactions On Autonomous Mental Development. 2014. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 274-285. DOI : 10.1109/Tamd.2014.2327812.Learning search polices from humans in a partially observable context
Robotics and Biomimetics. 2014. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 8. DOI : 10.1186/s40638-014-0008-1.Learning control Lyapunov function to ensure stability of dynamical system-based robot reaching motions
Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2014. Vol. 62, num. 6, p. 752-765. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2014.03.001.Catching Objects in Flight
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2014. Vol. 30, num. 5, p. 1049-1065. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2014.2316022.Learning robotic eye–arm–hand coordination from human demonstration: a coupled dynamical systems approach
Biological Cybernetics. 2014. Vol. 108, p. 223–248. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-014-0591-9.Triggering social interactions: chimpanzees respond to imitation by a humanoid robot and request responses from it
Animal Cognition. 2014. Vol. 17, num. 3, p. 589-595. DOI : 10.1007/s10071-013-0689-9.Conference Papers
Learning Cost Function and Trajectory for Robotic Writing Motion
2014. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Madrid, Spain, November 18-20, 2014. p. 608-615. DOI : 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041425.Stretchable capacitive tactile skin on humanoid robot fingers – first experiments and results
2014. 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Madrid, Spain, November 18-20th 2014. p. 238-245. DOI : 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041366.End-point Impedance Measurements at Human Hand during Interactive Manual Welding with Robot
2014. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 126-133. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906599.Cognitive mechanism in synchronized motion: An internal predictive model for manual tracking control
2014. The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2014), San Diego, USA, October 5-8, 2014. p. 765-771. DOI : 10.1109/SMC.2014.6974003.Learning of Grasp Adaptation through Experience and Tactile Sensing
2014. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, Illinois,USA, Sept. 14–18, 2014. p. 3339-3346. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943027.Rewards-Driven Control of Robot Arm by Decoding EEG Signals
2014. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC), Chicago, USA, August 26-30, 2014. p. 1658-1661. DOI : 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943924.Towards comprehensive capture of human grasping and manipulation skills
2014. Thirteenth International Symposium on the 3-D Analysis of Human Movement, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 14 – 17, 2014.Bimanual Compliant Tactile Exploration for Grasping Unknown Objects
2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), HongKong, China, May 31-June 7. p. 6400-6407. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907804.Learning Object-level Impedance Control for Robust Grasping and Dexterous Manipulation
2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), HongKong, China, May 31-June 7, 2014. p. 6784-6791. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907861.Theses
Learning Reach-to-Grasp Motions From Human Demonstrations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Rapid and reactive robot control framework for catching objects in flight
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Talks
Tactile exploration with the iCub robot
iCub and friends Workshop, ICRA 2014, Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014.2013
Journal Articles
Emotional Postures for the Humanoid-Robot Nao
International Journal of Social Robotics. 2013. Vol. 5, p. 441-456. DOI : 10.1007/s12369-013-0200-4.Social orienting of children with autism to facial expressions and speech: a study with a wearable eye-tracker in naturalistic settings
Frontiers In Psychology. 2013. Vol. 4, p. 840. DOI : 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00840.Assessing Interaction Dynamics in the Context of Robot Programming by Demonstration
International Journal of Social Robotics. 2013. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 477-490. DOI : 10.1007/s12369-013-0204-0.Using a head-mounted camera to infer attention direction
International Journal Of Behavioral Development. 2013. Vol. 37, num. 5, p. 468-474. DOI : 10.1177/0165025413495749.Autonomous reinforcement learning with experience replay
Neural Networks. 2013. Vol. 41, p. 156-167. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.11.007.On the Generation of a Variety of Grasps
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2013. Vol. 61, num. 12, p. 1335-1349. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2013.08.002.Conference Papers
Learning search behaviour from humans
2013. Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013.Learning from Failed Demonstrations in Unreliable Systems
2013. Humanoids 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 15-17,2013.Modulating Vision with Motor Plans: A Biologically-inspired Efficient Allocation of Visual Resources
2013. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS’2013, Atlanta, USA, October 15-17, 2013. p. 161-168. DOI : 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2013.7029971.Transfer in Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Strategies
2013. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-8, 2013. p. 3244-3250. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696817.Learning a Real Time Grasping Strategy
2013. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, 2013. p. 593-600. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630634.Safety Issues in Human-Robot Interactions
2013. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, 2013. p. 197-204. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630576.Posters
Synergy-level Grasp Synthesis Learning
ICRA 2013.2012
Journal Articles
Robot Learning from Failed Demonstrations
International Journal of Social Robotics. 2012. Vol. 4, p. 331-342. DOI : 10.1007/s12369-012-0161-z.Estimating the non-linear dynamics of free-flying objects
Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2012. Vol. 60, num. 9, p. 1108-1122. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2012.05.022.Investigating Gaze of Children with ASD in Naturalistic Settings
Plos One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 9, p. e44144. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0044144.Learning to play minigolf: A dynamical system-based approach
Advanced Robotics. 2012. Vol. 26, num. 17, p. 1967-1993. DOI : 10.1080/01691864.2012.728692.Iterative Estimation of Rigid-Body Transformations Application to Robust Object Tracking and Iterative Closest Point
Journal Of Mathematical Imaging And Vision. 2012. Vol. 43, p. 1-9. DOI : 10.1007/s10851-011-0279-x.A Dynamical System Approach to Realtime Obstacle Avoidance
Autonomous Robots. 2012. Vol. 32, num. 4, p. 433-454. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-012-9287-y.Coupled dynamical system based arm-hand grasping model for learning fast adaptation strategies
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2012. Vol. 60, num. 3, p. 424-440. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2011.07.023.Iterative Learning of Grasp Adaptation through Human Corrections
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2012. Vol. 60, num. 1, p. 55-71. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2011.08.012.Conference Papers
Probabilistic Depth Image Registration incorporating Nonvisual Information
2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). p. 3637-3644. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225179.Reaching and grasping kitchenware objects
2012. International Symposium on System Integration, Fukuoka, Japan, December 16-18, 2012. p. 865-870. DOI : 10.1109/SII.2012.6426944.Learning Coupled Dynamical Systems from Human Demonstration for Robotic Eye-Arm-Hand Coordination
2012. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Osaka, Japan, November 29-December 1, 2012. p. 552-559. DOI : 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651574.Face classification using touch with a humanoid robot hand
2012. 2012 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Osaka, Japan, 29.11-01-12,2012. p. 120-125. DOI : 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651508.Augmented-SVM: Automatic space partitioning for combining multiple non-linear dynamics
2012. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Tahoe, Nevada, USA, December 3-8, 2012. p. 1016-1024.Online Learning of Varying Stiffness Through Physical Human-Robot Interaction
2012. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 1842-1849. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224877.Theses
A Dynamical System-based Approach to Modeling Stable Robot Control Policies via Imitation Learning
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.Imitation Learning of Motion Coordination in Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.Book Chapters
Human-Robot Interaction
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning; Springer, 2012.Imitation Learning in Robots
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning; Springer, 2012.Learning Algorithms
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning; Springer, 2012.Posters
Realtime Avoidance of Fast Moving Objects: A Dynamical System-based Approach
Electronic proc. of the Workshop on Robot Motion Planning: Online, Reactive, and in Real-Time [IROS’2012], 2012.Talks
Face Classification using Touch with a Humanoid Robot
Second Workshop on Advances in tactile sensing and touch-based human-robot interaction, IROS 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012.2011
Journal Articles
Learning Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2011. Vol. 27, num. 5, p. 943-957. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2011.2159412.The Ethical Landscape of Robotics
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 2011. Vol. 18, num. 1, p. 39-50. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2011.940275.Learning Nonlinear Multivariate Dynamics of Motion in Robotic Manipulators [accepted]
International Journal of Robotics Research. 2011. Vol. 30, num. 8, p. 80-117. DOI : 10.1177/0278364910376251.A Wearable Gaze Tracking System for Children in Unconstrained Environments
Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 2011. Vol. 115, num. 4, p. 476-486. DOI : 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.11.013.Conference Papers
Measuring Gaze of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Naturalistic Interactions
2011. 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society (EMBS), Boston, MA, Aug 30-Sep 03, 2011. p. 5356-5359. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091325.Learning to Control Planar Hitting Motions in a Monigolf-like Task
2011. The 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), San Francisco, CA, September 25-30, 2011. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094402.Coupled dynamical system based hand-arm grasp planning under real-time perturbations
2011. Robotics: Science and Systems, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 26 – July 1, 2011. p. 313.Donut as I do: Learning from Failed Demonstrations
2011. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, May 9-13. p. 3804-3809. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979757.Motion Learning and Adaptive Impedance for Robot Control during Physical Interaction with Humans
2011. International Conferece on Robotics and Automation. p. 4326-4332. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980070.Theses
Machine Vision-Based Analysis of Gaze and Visual Context
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Reports
The derivatives of the SEDS optimization cost function and constraints with respect to the learning parameters
2011
Posters
Learning to Play Mini-Golf from Human Demonstration using Autonomous Dynamical Systems
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Seattle, USA, June 28 – July 2.Patents
Wearable systems for audio, visual and gaze monitoring
US2012314045; EP2470061; WO2011024134.
2011.2010
Journal Articles
Tactile Guidance for Policy Adaptation
Foundations and Trends in Robotics. 2010. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 79-133. DOI : 10.1561/2300000012.Roombots: Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive Furniture
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, special issue on “Evolutionary and developmental approaches to robotics”. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 20-32. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2010.937320.Learning and reproduction of gestures by imitation: An approach based on Hidden Markov Model and Gaussian Mixture Regression
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 2010. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 44–54. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2010.936947.A Survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 10, p. 1159-1176. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2010.07.002.Revisiting a study of callosal apraxia: The right hemisphere can imitate the orientation but not the position of the hand
Neuropsychologia. 2010. Vol. 48, num. 9, p. 2509-2516. DOI : 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.025.Conference Papers
A study of two complementary encoding strategies based on learning by demonstration for autonomous navigation task
2010. Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7, 2010.A state-action neural network supervising navigation and manipulation behaviors for complex task reproduction
2010. Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7, 2010.Learning Motion Dynamics to Catch a Moving Object
2010. 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, USA, December 6-8, 2010. p. 106-111. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2010.5686332.Imitation learning of Globally Stable Non-Linear Point-to-Point Robot Motions using Nonlinear Programming
2010. the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 18-22 October, 2010. p. 2676-2683. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651259.Tactile Guidance for Policy Refinement and Reuse
2010. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, August, 2010. p. 7-12. DOI : 10.1109/DEVLRN.2010.5578872.Policy Adaptation through Tactile Correction
2010. Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB’10), Leicester, United Kingdom, March, 2010.Evaluation of a probabilistic approach to learn and reproduce gestures by imitation
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 3-8. p. 2671-2676. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509988.BM: An Iterative Method to Learn Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models
2010. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. p. 2381-2388.Posters
A state-action neural network supervising navigation and manipulation behaviors for complex task reproduction
Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7, 2010.The variability of contact position errors in apraxic imitation
Society for Neuroscience Meeting (SfN 2010), San Diego, California, USA, November 13-17, 2010.A learning by imitation model handling multiple constraints and motion alternatives
International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), Zuerich, Switzerland, January 27-28.2009
Journal Articles
Interview with Biljana Petreska, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ieee Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2009. Vol. 4, p. 7-+. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2008.930982.Statistical Learning by Imitation of Competing Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space
Advanced Robotics. 2009. Vol. 23, num. 15, p. 2059-2076. DOI : 10.1163/016918609X12529294461843.Movement Curvature Planning through Force Field Internal Models
Biological Cybernetics. 2009. Vol. 100, num. 5, p. 331-350. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-009-0300-2.Conference Papers
Tactile Correction and Multiple Training Data Sources for Robot Motion Control
2009. Whistler, British Columbia, December, 2009.Roombots-Mechanical Design of Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots for Adaptive Furniture
2009. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009. p. 4259-4264. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152613.Teaching Physical Collaborative Tasks: Object-Lifting Case Study with a Humanoid
2009. IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Paris, 7-10 Dec. 2009. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2009.5379513.Handling of multiple constraints and motion alternatives in a robot programming by demonstration framework
2009. 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Paris, December 7 – 10, 2009. p. 582-588. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2009.5379592.Learning Nonlinear Multi-Variate Motion Dynamics for Real- Time Position and Orientation Control of Robotic Manipulators
2009. 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. p. 472-477. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2009.5379536.Keyword Detection for Spontaneous Speech
2009. The 2nd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2009), Tianjin, China, October 17-19, 2009.Teaching a Humanoid: A User Study on Learning by Demonstration with HOAP-3
2009. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), Toyama, Japan, September, 2009. p. 147-152. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326274.Learning collaborative manipulation tasks by demonstration using a haptic interface
2009. International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Munich, Germany, June 22-26, 2009.Theses
Modeling the neural correlates of imitation from a neuropsychological perspective
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Using reinforcement learning for optimizing the reproduction of tasks in robot programming by demonstration
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Adaptive sensorimotor peripersonal space representation and motor learning for a humanoid robot
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Posters
Learning and Control of UAV maneuvers Based on Demonstrations
Robotics Science and Systems, Seattle, June 28 – July 1, 2009.Combining Task-Level and Trajectory-Level Learning for Teaching Robots Bimanual Coordinated Tasks
Robotics Science and Systems, Seattle,What apraxia tells us about the brain hemispheres’ contributions to human imitation
Society for Neuroscience Meeting (SfN 2009), Chicago, October 17-21.2008
Journal Articles
Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2008. Vol. 24, num. 6, p. 1463-1467. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2008.2006703.Online learning of the body schema
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. 2008. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 161-181. DOI : 10.1142/S0219843608001376.Reaching with Multi-Referential Dynamical Systems
Autonomous Robots. 2008. Vol. 25, num. 1-2, p. 71-83. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-007-9070-7.Conference Papers
Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning
2008. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, September 22-26, 2008. p. 863-869. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650673.A Probabilistic Programming by Demonstration Framework Handling Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space
2008. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, 22-26 September, 2008. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650593.A Neural Model of Demyelination of the Mouse Spinal Cord
2008. Hong Kong, June 1-6.On the influence of symbols and myths in the responsibility ascription problem in roboethics – A roboticist’s perspective
2008. RO-MAN, Münich, August 2008. p. 563–568. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2008.460072.A framework integrating statistical and social cues to teach a humanoid robot new skills
2008. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 2008.Calibration-Free Eye Gaze Direction Detection with Gaussian Processes
2008. VISAPP 08, 2008.Iterative rigid body transformation estimation for visual 3-D object tracking
2008. VISAPP 08, 2008. p. 674-677.Combining Dynamical Systems Control and Programming by Demonstration for Teaching Discrete Bimanual Coordination Tasks to a Humanoid Robot
2008. IEEE/ASM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 12-15 2008. p. 33-40. DOI : 10.1145/1349822.1349828.Theses
Neural modeling of the cortical processes underlying imitative behaviors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008.Book Chapters
Survey: Robot Programming by Demonstration
Springer Handbook of Robotics; Springrer, 2008. p. 1371-1394.Posters
Human Motion Prediction in a Human-Robot Joint Task
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning.Neurocomputational modeling of imitation deficits
Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 2008), BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P76, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 19 – 24, 2008.Neurocomputational Modeling of Imitation through Apraxia Errors
Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2008), colocated with NIPS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 8, 2008.Modeling Unconstrained Self-Oriented Movements
Neural Control of Movement Society Meeting (NCM 2008), Naples, Florida, April 29 – May 4.2007
Journal Articles
Auditory motion affects visual biological motion processing
Neuropsychologia. 2007. Vol. 45, num. 3, p. 523-530. DOI : 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.12.012.Neuroprotection by Hsp104 and Hsp27 in lentiviral-based rat models of Huntington’s disease
Molecular Therapy. 2007. Vol. 15, num. 5, p. 903-11. DOI : 10.1038/mt.sj.6300141.Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements
Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 13, p. 1521-1544. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782148550.Special Issue on Robot Learning by Observation, Demonstration and Imitation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics). 2007. Vol. 37, num. 2, p. 254-255. DOI : 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.886946.Building Robota, a Mini-Humanoid Robot for the Rehabilitation of Children with Autism
Assistive Technology. 2007. Vol. 19, num. 1, p. 37-49. DOI : 10.1080/10400435.2007.10131864.What is the Teacher’s Role in Robot Programming by Demonstration? – Toward Benchmarks for Improved Learning
Interaction Studies. 2007. Vol. 8, num. 3, p. 441-464. DOI : 10.1075/is.8.3.08cal.On Learning, Representing and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot
IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics, Part B. 2007. Vol. 37, num. 2, p. 286-298. DOI : 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.886952.Conference Papers
A Model of Acquisition of Discrete Bimanual Coordination Skills for a Humanoid Robot
2007. International Conference in Epigenetic Robotics.Analysis of Head Mounted Wireless Camera Videos for Early Diagnosis of Autism
2007. International Conference on Recognition Systems, Wroclaw (Poland), 2007. p. 663-670. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-75175-5_83.WearCam: A head mounted wireless camera for monitoring gaze attention and for the diagnosis of developmental disorders in young children
2007. RO-MAN’2007, 2007. p. 594-598. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415154.Using Reinforcement Learning to Adapt an Imitation Task
2007. IROS’2007, 2007. p. 1022-1027. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399449.Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration
2007. RO-MAN’2007, Jeju, Korea, 2007. p. 702-707. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415177.The Dof-Box Project: An Educational Kit for Configurable Robots
2007. AIM 2007, 2007-09-04. DOI : 10.1109/AIM.2007.4412571.Interferences in the Transformation of Reference Frames during a Posture Imitation Task
2007. Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 07, Porto, Portugal, 2007.Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
2007. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Arlington, VA, USA, March 9-11. p. 255-262. DOI : 10.1145/1228716.1228751.Reviews
Apraxia: a review
Progress in brain research. 2007. Vol. 164, p. 61-83. DOI : 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64004-7.Theses
Continuous extraction of task constraints in a robot programming by demonstration framework
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.Book Chapters
Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions; Cambridge University Press, 2007. p. 153-177.2006
Journal Articles
Dynamic Updating of Distributed Neural Representations using Forward Models
Biological Cybernetics. 2006. Vol. 95(6), p. 567-588. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-006-0131-3.Parallel and Distributed Neural Models of the Ideomotor Principle: An Investigation of Imitative Cortical Pathways
Neural Networks. 2006. Vol. 19(3), p. 285-298.Discriminative and Adaptive Imitation in Uni-Manual and Bi-Manual Tasks
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2006. Vol. 54, num. 5, p. 370-384. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2006.01.007.Conference Papers
Robot Navigation by Panoramic Vision and Attention Guided Features
2006. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August 20-24, 2006. p. 695-698. DOI : 10.1109/ICPR.2006.998.Fuzzy adaptive control of nonlinear systems
2006. Informational Technologies of Modeling and Control. p. 50-55.On one method of design of stable adaptive fuzzy control system
2006. XII International Scientific Conference for Young Scientists “Lomonosov-2006” by Moscow State University, Moscow,An attention framework for learning by interaction in developmental embodied agents
2006. TAROS 2006, Guildford, UK, 4-6 Sept 2006.Attention mechanisms for the imitation of goal-directed action in developmental robots
2006. EPIROB 2006, Paris, France, 20-22 Sept 2006.A Neurocomputational Model of an Imitation Deficit following Brain Lesion
2006. 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Athens, Greece, 2006. p. 770-779. DOI : 10.1007/11840817_80.Biologically Inspired Multimodal Integration: Interferences in a Human-Robot Interaction Game
2006. IROS’2006, Beijing, China, 2006.A Model for Imitating Human Reaching Movements
2006. HRI 2006, Salt Lake City, 2006-03-02. p. 341-342.A Biologically-Inspired Model of Reaching Movements
2006. BIOROB 2006, Pisa, 2006-02-20. p. 1067-1072. DOI : 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639233.Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks
2006. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Genova, Italy, December 4-6. p. 444-449. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321310.Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and Reproduce Social Cues
2006. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Hatfield, UK, 6-8 September. p. 346-351. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314458.On Learning the Statistical Representation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts
2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). p. 2978–2983. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642154.Books
The Social Mechanisms of Robot Programming By Demonstration
Elsevier, 2006.Special Issue on the Brain Mechanisms of Imitation Learning
Neural Networks, 2006.Book Chapters
Development of goal-directed imitation, object manipulation and language in humans and robots
In M. A. Arbib (ed.), Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System; Cambridge University Press., 2006.Conference Proceedings
Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices
2006. EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006.Posters
A Neurocomputational Model of Impaired Imitation
first Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2006), San Diego (USA), 4 October 2006.Gait Analysis of Autistic Children with Echo State Networks
NIPS’06, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, December 4, 2006.2005
Journal Articles
Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: Can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?
Universal Access in the Information Society. 2005. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 105-120. DOI : 10.1007/s10209-005-0116-3.Three Dimensional Frames of References Transformations using Recurrent Populations of Neurons
Neurocomputing. 2005. Vol. 64, p. 5-24.Conference Papers
A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits
2005. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. p. 161-166. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2005.1573562.Recognition and Reproduction of Gestures using a Probabilistic Framework combining PCA, ICA and HMM
2005. 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, August 2005. p. 105–112.Design of a Biomimetic Upper Body for the Humanoid Robot Robota
2005. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005-12-05. p. 56-61. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2005.1573545.Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
2005. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. p. 299–304. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570135.Challenges in designing the body and the mind of an interactive robot
2005. AISB05 convention, Symposium on Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges, 12-15 April 2005,UH..Extended Hopfield Network for Sequence Learning: Application to Gesture Recognition
2005. ICANN’2005, 2005-09-05 00:00:00.00.View Sensitive Cells as a Neural Basis for the Representation of Others in a Self-Centered Frame of Reference
2005. Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Hatfield, UK, p. 119-127.Neural Model of the Transformation from Allo-centric to Ego- centric Representation of Motions
2005. Fourteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2005, Madison, USA.,Posters
Modeling of Imitation Deficits in Apraxic Patients
ESF Research Conference on Brain Development and Cognition in Human Infants, Maratea (Italy), 2005.2004
Journal Articles
Coevolution of active vision and feature selection
Biological Cybernetics. 2004. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218–228. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-004-0467-5.Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2004. Vol. 47, num. 2-3, p. 69-77. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2004.03.002.Conference Papers
Robots as Assistive Technology – Does Appearance Matter?
2004. RO-MAN’2004, Kurashiki , Okayama Japan., September 20-22, 2004. p. 277-282. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2004.1374773.Three dimensional frames of reference transformations using gain modulated populations of neurons
2004. 12th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges (Belgium), p. 543-548.Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition Model for a Humanoid Robot
2004. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 2004. p. 2769-2774. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2004.1389828.Effects of repeated exposure of a humanoid robot on children with autism
2004. 2nd Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT), Cambridge, England, March 2004. p. 225-236. DOI : 10.1007/978-0-85729-372-5_23.Development of a miniature articulated arm and pair of eyes for the humanoid robot Robota
2004. IEEE/APS conference on Mechatronics and Robotics.Gesture Recognition and Reproduction for a Humanoid Robot using Hidden Markov Models
2004. AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms.Development of a Miniature Pair of Eyes With Camera for the Humanoid Robot Robota
2004. IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2004-11-10 00:00:00.00.Books
EDITORIAL: Robot Programming By Demonstration
2004.Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, From Animals to Animats 8 (SAB 2004)
2004.Reports
Stereoscopic Vision and Trajectory Recognition
2004
Imitation, Language and other Natural Means of Interactions we build for our Machines: Do we really want machines to resemble us that much?
2004
2003
Journal Articles
Computational approaches to motor learning by imitation
Philosophical transaction of the Royal Society of London, series B. 2003. Vol. 358, num. 1431, p. 537-547. DOI : 10.1098/rstb.2002.1258.Conference Papers
Modeling directional firing properties of place cells
2003. Twelfth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2003, Alicante, Spain,PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots
2003. third IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2003.Effect of repeated exposure of a humanoid robot on children with autism – Can we encourage basic social interaction skills
2003. CWUATT.Discovering Imitation Strategies through Categorization of Multi-Dimensional Data
2003. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.. p. 2398-2403. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1249229.2002
Journal Articles
Imitation of coordinated arm movements
Experimental Brain Research. 2002.Conference Papers
Games children with autism can play with robota, a humanoid robotics doll
2002. 1st Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, March 2002.Computational elements of robot learning by imitation
2002. 980th American Mathematical Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 12-13.Book Chapters
Imitation
Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks; MIT Press, 2002. p. 566-569.Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota
Socially Intelligent Agents; Kluwer publisher, 2002. p. 165-173.Mirror neurons, and the neural basis for learning by imitation: Computational modeling
Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language; John Benjamins publisher, 2002. p. 343-353.Imitation: a means to enhance learning of a synthetic proto-language in an autonomous robot
Imitation in Animals and Artifacts; MIT Press, 2002. p. 281-311.2001
Journal Articles
Comparison between macaques’ and humans’ kinematics of prehension: the role of morphological differences and control mechanisms
Behavioural Brain Research. 2001. Vol. 131, num. 1-2, p. 169-184. DOI : 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00372-2.Learning human arm movements by imitation: Evaluation of a biologically-inspired connectionist architecture
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2001. Vol. 37, num. 2-3, p. 145-160. DOI : 10.1016/S0921-8890(01)00155-5.Collaboration through the Exploitation of Local Interactions in Autonomous Collective Robotics: The Stick Pulling Experiment
Autonomous Robots. 2001. Vol. 11, num. 2, p. 149-171. DOI : 10.1023/A:1011227210047.Conference Papers
Robust learning of arm trajectories through human demonstration
2001. International Conference on Intelligent and Robotics Systems, Hawaii, November, 2001. p. 734-739.A neural model of morpheme representation
2001. 8th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, Mai, 2001.Mirror Neurons and the neural basis for learning by imitation: A computational model
2001. Conference on Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, Delmenhorst, Germany, July 5-8, 2001.2000
Journal Articles
Synthetic brain imaging: grasping, mirror neurons and imitation
Neural Networks. 2000. Vol. 13, num. 8-9, p. 975-997. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(00)00070-8.Learning motor skills by imitation: a biologically inspired robotic model
Cybernetics & Systems. 2000. Vol. 32, num. 1-2, p. 155-193. DOI : 10.1080/019697201300001849.Conference Papers
Learning human arm movements by imitation: Evaluation of a biologically-inspired connectionist architecture
2000. First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 7-8.Biologically inspired neural controllers for motor control in a quadruped robot
2000. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Come (Italy), 27 July, 2000. p. 637-641. DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2000.859467.Learning motor skills by imitation: a biologically inspired robotic model
2000. Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, May 24-27, 2000.Learning motor skills by imitation
2000. 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, Los Angeles, May 20, 2000.Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota
2000. Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment, CMU, Pittsburgh, April 30 – Mai 1, 2000.Betty: “Robot, play with me!”. Robot: “O.K. How do we play?”. Betty: “You watch me and do like I do. Look!”
2000. Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment, CMU, Pittsburgh, April 30 – Mai 1, 2000.A biologically inspired robotic model for learning by imitation
2000. Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000. p. 373-380.1999
Journal Articles
Experiments in social robotics: grounding and use of communication in autonomous agents
Adaptive Behavior. 1999. Vol. 7, num. 3/4, p. 415-438. DOI : 10.1177/105971239900700311.DRAMA, a connectionist architecture for on-line learning and control of autonomous robots: Experiments on learning of a synthetic proto-language with a doll robot
Industrial Robot. 1999. Vol. 26, num. 1, p. 59-66. DOI : 10.1108/01439919910250232.DRAMA, a connectionist architecture for control and learning in autonomous robots
Adaptive Behavior. 1999. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 35-64. DOI : 10.1177/105971239900700103.A multi-robot system for adaptive exploration of a fast changing environment: probabilistic modelling and experimental study
Connection Science. 1999. Vol. 11, num. 3–4, p. 359-377. DOI : 10.1080/095400999116304.Conference Papers
Adaptive exploration of a dynamic environment by a group of communicating robots
1999. 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lausanne, CH, September, 1999.Imitation skills as a means to enhance learning of a synthetic proto-language in an autonomous robot
1999. AISB Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Edinbrugh, U.K., April, 1999.Bringing up Robots or – The Psychology of Socially Intelligent Robots: From Theory to Implementation
1999. Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Seattle, Washington, USA, p. 366-367.Studying Robot Social Cognition Within a Developmental Psychology Framework
1999. Third European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, Switzerland, September, 1999. p. 187-194.1998
Journal Articles
Grounding communication in autonomous robots: an experimental study
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 1998. Vol. 24, num. 1-2, p. 71-79. DOI : 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00023-2.Conference Papers
Experiments on human-robot communication with Robota, an imitative learning and communicating doll robot
1998. Socially Situated Intelligence Workshop, as part of the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Zurich (CH), August.Evolutionary robotics – a children’s game
1998. IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation. p. 154-158. DOI : 10.1109/ICEC.1998.699493.Theses
DRAMA, a connectionist model for robot learning: Experiments on grounding communication through imitation in autonomous robots
Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1998.Book Chapters
Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots
Learning Robots: A Multi-Perspective Exploration; Springer-Verlag, 1998. p. 79-95.1997
Conference Papers
Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots
1997. Sixth European Workshop on Learning Robots, Brighton, July, 1997. p. 79-94.Learning to Communicate through Imitation in Autonomous robots
1997. 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Lausanne, CH, October 1997. p. 763-768.Grounding communication in situated, social robots
1997. Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots Conference, Manchester,‘Robot’s first steps, Robot’s first words …’
1997. Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition, Edinburgh, 4-6 April, 1997.Posters
The social aspect of communication: a case study in the use and usefulness of communication for embodied agents
1996
Reports
Grounding communication in situated, social robots
1996
‘Allo Kazam, do you follow me?’ Learning to speak through imitation for social robots
1996