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    2024

    Journal Articles

    Avoidance of Concave Obstacles Through Rotation of Nonlinear Dynamics

    L. Huber; J-J. Slotine; A. Billard 

    Ieee Transactions On Robotics. 2024-01-01. Vol. 40, p. 1983-2002. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2023.3344034.

    An objective skill assessment framework for microsurgical anastomosis based on ALI scores

    S. Gholami; A. Manon; K. Yao; A. Billard; T. R. Meling 

    Acta Neurochirurgica. 2024-02-24. Vol. 166, num. 1, p. 104. DOI : 10.1007/s00701-024-05934-1.

    A Predictive Model for Tactile Force Estimation Using Audio-Tactile Data

    L. Niederhauser; A. Prabhakar; D. Reber; A. Billard 

    Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2024-02-01. Vol. 9, num. 2, p. 1596-1603. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2023.3340614.

    Theses

    Exact Obstacle Avoidance for Robots in Complex and Dynamic Environments Using Local Modulation

    L. Huber / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

    2023

    Journal Articles

    Inferring individual evaluation criteria for reaching trajectories with obstacle avoidance from EEG signals

    F. Iwane; A. Billard; J. d. R. Millan 

    Scientific Reports. 2023-11-17. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 20163. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-023-47136-2.

    EEG error-related potentials encode magnitude of errors and individual perceptual thresholds

    F. Iwane; A. Sobolewski; R. Chavarriaga; J. d. R. Milan 

    Iscience. 2023-08-14. Vol. 26, num. 9, p. 107524. DOI : 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107524.

    A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning

    A. Duan; I. Batzianoulis; R. Camoriano; L. Rosasco; D. Pucci et al. 

    International Journal Of Robotics Research. 2023-11-01. Vol. 43, num. 2, p. 113-133. DOI : 10.1177/02783649231204656.

    Online active and dynamic object shape exploration with a multi-fingered robotic hand

    F. Khadivar; K. Yao; X. Gao; A. Billard 

    Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2023-06-01. Vol. 166, p. 104461. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2023.104461.

    Motion Planning and Inertia Based Control for Impact Aware Manipulation

    H. Khurana; A. Billard 

    IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2023-09-04. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2023.3319895.

    Inverse Reinforcement Learning of Pedestrian-Robot Coordination

    D. Gonon; A. Billard 

    Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2023-08-01. Vol. 8, num. 8, p. 4815-4822. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2023.3289770.

    Conference Papers

    Agent Prioritization and Virtual Drag Minimization in Dynamical System Modulation For Obstacle Avoidance of Decentralized Swarms

    L-N. Douce; A. Menichelli; L. Huber; A. Bolotnikova; D. Paez-Granados et al. 

    2023-01-01. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, OCT 01-05, 2023. p. 8882-8888. DOI : 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341717.

    A Stable Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Estimating Robot Manipulators Link Velocity and Acceleration

    S. A. B. Birjandi; H. Khurana; A. Billard; S. Haddadin 

    2023-01-01. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, OCT 01-05, 2023. p. 346-353. DOI : 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342476.

    Hybrid Quadratic Programming – Pullback Bundle Dynamical Systems Control

    B. Fichera; A. Billard 

    2023-01-01. 18th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Geneva, SWITZERLAND, Sep 25-30, 2022. p. 387-394. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-25555-7_26.

    Theses

    Implicit Distance Functions: Learning and Applications in Robotics

    M. Koptev / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

    2022

    Journal Articles

    Linearization and Identification of Multiple-Attractor Dynamical Systems through Laplacian Eigenmaps

    B. Fichera; A. Billard 

    Journal Of Machine Learning Research. 2022-01-01. Vol. 23.

    Neural Joint Space Implicit Signed Distance Functions for Reactive Robot Manipulator Control

    M. Koptev; N. Figueroa; A. Billard 

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022-12-08. Vol. 8, num. 2, p. 480-487. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2022.3227860.

    The Gaze Dialogue Model: Nonverbal Communication in HHI and HRI

    M. Rakovic; N. F. Duarte; J. Marques; A. Billard; J. Santos-Victor 

    Ieee Transactions On Cybernetics. 2022-11-29. DOI : 10.1109/TCYB.2022.3222077.

    EMG-driven shared human-robot compliant control for in-hand object manipulation in hand prostheses

    F. Khadivar; V. Mendez; C. Correia; I. Batzianoulis; A. Billard et al. 

    Journal Of Neural Engineering. 2022-12-01. Vol. 19, num. 6, p. 066024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-2552/aca35f.

    Powerful 2D Soft Morphing Actuator Propels Giant Manta Ray Robot

    Y. Sun; H. Feng; X. Liang; A. J. Y. Goh; P. Qi et al. 

    Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022-10-30. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200186.

    Conference Papers

    A Dynamical System Approach to Decentralized Collision-free Autonomous Coordination of a Mobile Assistive Furniture Swarm

    F. M. Conzelmann; L. Huber; D. Paez-Granados; A. Bolotnikova; A. Ijspeert et al. 

    2022-01-01. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, JAPAN, Oct 23-27, 2022. p. 7259-7265. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981583.

    A Solution to Adaptive Mobile Manipulator Throwing

    Y. Liu; A. Nayak; A. Billard 

    2022-01-01. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, JAPAN, Oct 23-27, 2022. p. 1625-1632. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981231.

    User-specific, Adaptable Safety Controllers Facilitate User Adoption in Human-Robot Collaboration

    A. Prabhakar; A. Billard 

    2022. AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 17-19, 2022.

    Theses

    Advancing the Adaptability of Compliant Robot Controllers for Exploration, Interaction, and Manipulation

    F. Khadivar / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

    Advancing coordination control of multi-limb robotic tasks: application to bimanual dynamic manipulation and bipedal reactive locomotion

    M. B. Bombile / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

    2021

    Journal Articles

    Design of Hesitation Gestures for Nonverbal Human-Robot Negotiation of Conflicts

    A. Moon; M. Hashmi; H. F. M. Van der Loos; E. A. Croft; A. Billard 

    Acm Transactions On Human-Robot Interaction. 2021-07-01. Vol. 10, num. 3, p. 24. DOI : 10.1145/3418302.

    Customizing skills for assistive robotic manipulators, an inverse reinforcement learning approach with error-related potentials

    I. Batzianoulis; F. Iwane; S. Wei; C. G. P. R. Correia; R. Chavarriaga et al. 

    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

    R. Wu; A. Billard 

    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

    A. Carfi; T. Patten; Y. Kuang; A. Hammoud; M. Alameh et al. 

    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

    C. Yang; D. F. Paez Granados; B. Leme; K. Suzuki 

    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2021-08-01. Vol. 26, num. 4, p. 2007-2015. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3081426.

    Conference Papers

    Multimodal Sensory Learning for Real-time, Adaptive Manipulation

    A. Prabhakar; S. Furrer; L. Panchetti; M. Perret; A. Billard 

    2021. AAAI 2021 Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), Virtual, November 4-6, 2021.

    Credit Assignment Safety Learning from Human Demonstrations

    A. Prabhakar; A. Billard 

    2021. AAAI 2021 Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), Virtual, November 4-6, 2021.

    Crowd against the machine: A simulation-based benchmark tool to evaluate and compare robot capabilities to navigate a human crowd

    F. Grzeskowiak; D. J. Gonon; D. Dugas; D. F. Paez Granados; J. J. Chung et al. 

    2021-05-30. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China, 30 May-5 June 2021. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561694.

    Theses

    Control of Contact Tasks in Autonomous and Human-Robot Collaborative Scenarios: A Dynamical System Approach

    W. Amanhoud / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

    Datasets

    iCub Joint Space Self-Collision Avoidance [Data & Code]

    M. Koptev 

    2021.

    2020

    Journal Articles

    A dynamical system approach for detection and reaction to human guidance in physical human-robot interaction

    M. Khoramshahi; A. Billard 

    Autonomous Robots. 2020-07-26. Vol. 44, p. 1411–1429. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-020-09934-9.

    Conference Papers

    Effect of task conditions on human hand pose selection strategies in bimanual fine manipulation tasks

     

    2020-04-27. Neural Control of Movement 2022 Annual Meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 27 – May 1, 2020.

    Control Interface for Hands-free Navigation of Standing Mobility Vehicles based on Upper-Body Natural Movements

    C. Yang; D. F. Paez Granados; H. Kadone; K. Suzuki 

    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.

    Robot Mirroring: Promoting Empathy with an Artificial Agent by Reflecting the User’s Physiological Affective States

    M. Perusquia-Hernandez; M. C. Balda; D. A. G. Jauregui; D. Paez-Granados; F. Dollack et al. 

    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.

    From human action understanding to robot action execution: how the physical properties of handled objects modulate non-verbal cues

    N. R. Ferreira Duarte; K. Chatzilygeroudis; J. Santos-Victor; A. Billard 

    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.

    Force Adaptation in Contact Tasks with Dynamical Systems

    W. Amanhoud; M. Khoramshahi; M. Bonnesoeur; A. Billard 

    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.

    Talks

    Effect of task conditions on human hand pose selection strategies in bimanual fine manipulation tasks

    K. Yao; A. Billard 

    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.

    Materializing Personal Standing Mobility from Design to Shared Control

    D. F. Paez Granados; A. Billard; K. Suzuki 

    CYBATHLON Symposium 2020, Virtual, Septembre 17, 2020.

    Physical Safety in Collisions Between Robots and Pedestrians

    D. F. Paez Granados; D. J. Gonon; P. Salvini; A. Billard 

    29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2020), Virtual Workshop, August 31, 2020.

    Datasets

    Unscrewing Experiment Dataset

    K. Yao 

    2020-05-28.

    2019

    Journal Articles

    Shared human–robot proportional control of a dexterous myoelectric prosthesis

    K. Z. Zhuang; N. Sommer; V. Mendez; S. Aryan; E. Formento et al. 

    Nature Machine Intelligence. 2019-09-11. Vol. 1, num. 9, p. 400-411. DOI : 10.1038/s42256-019-0093-5.

    Conference Papers

    A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks

    W. Amanhoud; M. Khoramshahi; A. Billard 

    2019-01-01. 15th Conference on Robotics – Science and Systems, Freiburg im Breisgau, GERMANY, Jun 22-26, 2019.

    On Force Synergies in Human Grasping Behavior

    J. Starke; K. Chatzilygeroudis; A. Billard; T. Asfour 

    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.

    Scalable closed-form trajectories for periodic and non-periodic human-like walking

    S. Faraji; A. J. Ijspeert 

    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.

    Four-Arm Manipulation via Feet Interfaces

    J. Hernandez Sanchez; W. Amanhoud; A. B. Haget; H. Bleuler; A. Billard et al. 

    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.

    Evaluation of an Industrial Robotic Assistant in an Ecological Environment

    B. Busch; G. Cotugno; M. Khoramshahi; G. Skaltsas; D. Turchi et al. 

    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.

    Theses

    From High-Level to Low-Level Robot Learning of Complex Tasks: Leveraging Priors, Metrics and Dynamical Systems

    N. B. Figueroa Fernandez / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

    Posters

    Towards Understanding of Human Kinematic Coordination Patterns in Bimanual Fine Manipulation Tasks

    K. Yao; A. B. Haget; A. Billard 

    Progress in Motor Control XII: Movement Improvement, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 7-10, 2019.

    Student Projects

    Inferring Assembly Objects and Sequences from Demonstrations

    M. Nobar 

    2019-06-11.

    Datasets

    Spring Assembly Experiment Dataset

    K. Yao 

    2019-05-21.

    2018

    Journal Articles

    Social babbling: The emergence of symbolic gestures and words

    L. Cohen; A. Billard 

    Neural Networks. 2018-10-01. Vol. 106, p. 194-204. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2018.06.016.

    Learning task manifolds for constrained object manipulation

    M. Li; K. Tahara; A. Billard 

    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

    S. Raffard; C. Bortolon; L. Cohen; M. Khoramshahi; R. Salesse et al. 

    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

    L. Ureche; A. Billard 

    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

    N. Duarte; M. Rakovic; J. Tasevski; M. Coco; A. Billard et al. 

    IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 4, p. 4132-4139. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2861569.

    Conference Papers

    Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

    S. Chandra; R. Paradeda; H. Yin; P. Dillenbourg; R. Prada et al. 

    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

    N. B. Figueroa Fernandez; A. Billard 

    2018. 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Zurich, Switzerland, October 29-31,2018.

    Working Papers

    Transitioning with confidence during contact/non-contact scenarios

    S. S. Mirrazavi Salehian; H-C. Lin; N. B. Figueroa Fernandez; J. Smith; M. Mistry et al. 

    2018-10-05

    Posters

    Intention-based motion adaptation using dynamical systems with human in the loop

    M. Khoramshahi; A. Billard 

    IROS 2018 Workshop Machine Learning in Robot Motion Planning, Madrid, Spain, October 5th.

    Talks

    Integrating Multisensory Information for Modeling Human Dexterous Bimanual Manipulation Skills

    K. Yao; B. Fichera; A. B. Haget; I. Lauzana; A. Billard 

    2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018.

    2017

    Journal Articles

    Unravelling socio-motor biomarkers in schizophrenia

    P. Slowinski; F. Alderisio; C. Zhai; Y. Shen; P. Tino et al. 

    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

    L. Cohen; M. Khoramshahi; R. N. Salesse; C. Bortolon; P. Słowiński et al. 

    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

    J. Rey; K. Kronander; F. Farshidian; J. Buchli; A. Billard 

    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

    I. Batzianoulis; S. El Khoury; E. Pirondini; M. Coscia; S. Micera et al. 

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2017. Vol. 91, p. 59-70. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2016.12.014.

    Conference Papers

    Capture-Point Based Balance and Reactive Omnidirectional Walking Controller

    M. Bombile; A. Billard 

    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

    J. R. Medina; A. Billard 

    2017. robot-learning, Mountain View, California, November 13 – 15, 2017. p. 175-184.

    Learning Externally Modulated Dynamical Systems

    N. Sommer; K. Kronander; A. Billard 

    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

    S. S. Mirrazavi Salehian; N. B. Figueroa Fernandez; A. Billard 

    2017. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017. p. 4914–4918.

    Theses

    Multi-contact tactile exploration and interaction with unknown objects

    N. Sommer / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

    Posters

    Effects of Facial Emotions on Social-motor Coordination in Schizophrenia

    L. Cohen; M. Khoramshahi; R. Salesse; C. Bortolon; P. Slowinski et al. 

    7th Joint Action Meeting, London, UK, July 22-25, 2017.

    2016

    Journal Articles

    Stability Considerations for Variable Impedance Control

    K. Kronander; A. Billard 

    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

    M. S. Erden; A. Billard 

    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

    K. Hang; M. Li; J. A. Stork; Y. Bekiroglu; F. T. Pokorny et al. 

    Ieee Transactions On Robotics. 2016. Vol. 32, num. 4, p. 960-972. DOI : 10.1109/Tro.2016.2588879.

    Conference Papers

    Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services

    M. Beetz; D. Bessler; J. Winkler; J-H. Worch; F. Balint-Benczedi et al. 

    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

    K. Hang; J. A. Haustein; M. Li; A. Billard; C. Smith et al. 

    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

    L. Cohen; A. Billard 

    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

    A. G. Billard 

    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

    N. Figueroa; A. L. P. Ureche; A. Billard 

    2016. 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Christchurch, New Zealand, p. 611-612. DOI : 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451881.

    Theses

    Learning Search Strategies from Human Demonstrations

    G. P. L. De Chambrier / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

    Book Chapters

    Learning From Humans

    A. G. Billard; S. Calinon; R. Dillmann 

    Springer Handbook of robotics; Secaucus, NJ, USA: Springer, 2016. p. 1995-2014.

    2015

    Journal Articles

    Task Parameterization Using Continuous Constraints Extracted From Human Demonstrations

    L. Ureche; K. Umezawa; Y. Nakamura; A. Billard 

    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

    R. De Souza; S. El-Khoury; J. Santos-Victor; A. Billard 

    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

    M. S. Erden; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Huang; M. Li; R. L. De Souza; J. J. Bryson; A. Billard 

    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

    M. S. Erden; A. Billard 

    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

    L. Lukic; A. Billard; J. Santos-Victor 

    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

    K. Kronander; M. Khansari; A. Billard 

    Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 70, p. 52-62. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.03.010.

    Conference Papers

    EMG-Based Analysis of the Upper Limb Motion

    I. Batzianoulis; S. El-Khoury; S. Micera; A. Billard 

    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.

    Theses

    Visuomotor Coordination in Reach-To-Grasp Tasks: From Humans to Humanoids and Vice Versa

    L. Lukic / A. Billard; J. Santos-Victor (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

    Posters

    Bidirectional Learning of Handwriting Skill in Human-Robot Interaction

    H. Yin; A. Billard; A. Paiva 

    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

    K. Kronander; A. Billard 

    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

    S. Magrelli; B. Noris; P. Jermann; F. Ansermet; F. Hentsch et al. 

    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

    G. P. L. De Chambrier; A. Billard 

    Robotics and Biomimetics. 2014. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 8. DOI : 10.1186/s40638-014-0008-1.

    Conference Papers

    Learning Cost Function and Trajectory for Robotic Writing Motion

    H. Yin; A. Paiva; A. Billard 

    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

    A. P. Gerratt; N. Sommer; S. Lacour; A. Billard 

    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

    M. S. Erden; A. Billard 

    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

    M. Khoramshahi; A. Shukla; A. Billard 

    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

    M. Li; Y. Bekiroglu; D. Kragic; A. Billard 

    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.

    Theses

    Learning Reach-to-Grasp Motions From Human Demonstrations

    A. Shukla / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

    Talks

    Tactile exploration with the iCub robot

    N. Sommer; A. Billard 

    iCub and friends Workshop, ICRA 2014, Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014.

    2013

    Journal Articles

    Emotional Postures for the Humanoid-Robot Nao

    M. S. Erden 

    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

    S. Magrelli; P. Jermann; B. Noris; F. Ansermet; F. Hentsch et al. 

    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

    A. L. Pais; B. D. Argall; A. G. Billard 

    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

    C. Schmitow; G. Stenberg; A. Billard; C. Von Hofsten 

    International Journal Of Behavioral Development. 2013. Vol. 37, num. 5, p. 468-474. DOI : 10.1177/0165025413495749.

    Autonomous reinforcement learning with experience replay

    P. Wawrzynski; A. K. Tanwani 

    Neural Networks. 2013. Vol. 41, p. 156-167. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.11.007.

    On the Generation of a Variety of Grasps

    S. El Khoury; M. Li; A. Billard 

    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

    D. Chambrier; G. P. Luc; A. Billard 

    2013. Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013. p. 573-580. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739521.

    Learning from Failed Demonstrations in Unreliable Systems

    A. Rai; G. de Chambrier; A. Billard 

    2013. Humanoids 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 15-17,2013.

    Modulating Vision with Motor Plans: A Biologically-inspired Efficient Allocation of Visual Resources

    L. Lukic; A. Billard; J. Santos-Victor 

    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

    A. K. Tanwani; A. Billard 

    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.

    2012

    Journal Articles

    Robot Learning from Failed Demonstrations

    D. H. Grollman; A. G. Billard 

    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

    S. Kim; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Noris; J. Nadel; M. Barker; N. Hadjikhani; A. Billard 

    Plos One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 9, p. e44144. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0044144.

    Conference Papers

    Probabilistic Depth Image Registration incorporating Nonvisual Information

    M. Wuethrich; P. Pastor; L. Righetti; A. Billard; S. Schaal 

    2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). p. 3637-3644. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225179.

    Reaching and grasping kitchenware objects

    R. Figueiredo; A. Shukla; D. Aragao; P. Moreno; A. Bernardino et al. 

    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

    L. Lukic; J. Santos-Victor; A. Billard 

    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

    N. Sommer; A. Billard 

    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.

    Theses

    A Dynamical System-based Approach to Modeling Stable Robot Control Policies via Imitation Learning

    K. Zadeh; S. Mohammad / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. 

    Posters

    Realtime Avoidance of Fast Moving Objects: A Dynamical System-based Approach

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    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

    N. Sommer; A. Billard 

    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

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2011. Vol. 27, num. 5, p. 943-957. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2011.2159412.

    Conference Papers

    Measuring Gaze of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Naturalistic Interactions

    B. Noris; M. Barker; J. Nadel; F. Hentsch; F. Ansermet et al. 

    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

    K. Kronander; S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    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

    A. Shukla; A. Billard 

    2011. Robotics: Science and Systems, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 26 – July 1, 2011. p. 313.

    Donut as I do: Learning from Failed Demonstrations

    D. Grollman; A. Billard 

    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

    E. Gribovskaya; A. Kheddar; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Noris / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

    Reports

    The derivatives of the SEDS optimization cost function and constraints with respect to the learning parameters

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    2011

    Posters

    Learning to Play Mini-Golf from Human Demonstration using Autonomous Dynamical Systems

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Seattle, USA, June 28 – July 2.

    Patents

    Wearable systems for audio, visual and gaze monitoring

    A. Billard; B. Noris; J-b. Keller 

    US2012314045; EP2470061; WO2011024134.

    2011.

    2010

    Journal Articles

    Tactile Guidance for Policy Adaptation

    B. D. Argall; E. Sauser; A. Billard 

    Foundations and Trends in Robotics. 2010. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 79-133. DOI : 10.1561/2300000012.

    Roombots: Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive Furniture

    A. Spröwitz; S. Pouya; S. Bonardi; J. van den Kieboom; R. Möckel et al. 

    IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 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

    S. Calinon; F. D’halluin; E. Sauser; D. Caldwell; A. Billard 

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 2010. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 44–54. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2010.936947.

    Conference Papers

    A study of two complementary encoding strategies based on learning by demonstration for autonomous navigation task

    A. de Rengervé; F. D’halluin; P. Gaussienr; A. Billard 

    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

    F. D’halluin; A. de Rengervé; M. Lagarde; P. Gaussier; A. Billard et al. 

    2010. Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7, 2010.

    Learning Motion Dynamics to Catch a Moving Object

    S. Kim; E. Gribovskaya; A. Billard 

    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

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    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.

    Posters

    A state-action neural network supervising navigation and manipulation behaviors for complex task reproduction

    F. D’halluin; A. de Rengervé; M. Lagarde; P. Gaussier; A. Billard et al. 

    Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7, 2010.

    The variability of contact position errors in apraxic imitation

    B. Petreska; L. Schneider; J. Buttet Sovilla; A. Billard; M. Aeschlimann 

    Society for Neuroscience Meeting (SfN 2010), San Diego, California, USA, November 13-17, 2010.

    Student Projects

    Learning to Control Planar Hitting Motions of a Robotic Arm in a Mini-Golf-like Task

    K. J. A. Kronander 

    2010.

    2009

    Journal Articles

    Interview with Biljana Petreska, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    B. Petreska 

    Ieee Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2009. Vol. 4, p. 7-10. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2008.930982.

    Statistical Learning by Imitation of Competing Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    Advanced Robotics. 2009. Vol. 23, num. 15, p. 2059-2076. DOI : 10.1163/016918609X12529294461843.

    Conference Papers

    Tactile Correction and Multiple Training Data Sources for Robot Motion Control

    B. D. Argall; E. L. Sauser; A. G. Billard 

    2009. Whistler, British Columbia, December, 2009.

    Roombots-Mechanical Design of Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots for Adaptive Furniture

    A. Sproewitz; A. Billard; P. Dillenbourg; A. J. Ijspeert 

    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

    P. Evrard; E. Gribovskaya; S. Calinon; A. Billard; A. Kheddar 

    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

    S. Calinon; F. D’halluin; D. G. Caldwell; A. Billard 

    2009. 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Paris, December 7 – 10, 2009. p. 582-588. DOI : 10.1109/ICHR.2009.5379592.

    Theses

    Modeling the neural correlates of imitation from a neuropsychological perspective

    B. Petreska / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

    Posters

    Learning and Control of UAV maneuvers Based on Demonstrations

    S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

    Robotics Science and Systems, Seattle, June 28 – July 1, 2009.

    Combining Task-Level and Trajectory-Level Learning for Teaching Robots Bimanual Coordinated Tasks

    E. Gribovskaya; A. Billard 

    Robotics Science and Systems, Seattle,

    Student Projects

    Teaching of an Acrobatic Maneuver to an Aerial Robot

    A. Arfire 

    2009.

    2008

    Journal Articles

    Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations

    M. Hersch; F. Guenter; S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2008. Vol. 24, num. 6, p. 1463-1467. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2008.2006703.

    Online learning of the body schema

    M. Hersch; E. Sauser; A. Billard 

    International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. 2008. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 161-181. DOI : 10.1142/S0219843608001376.

    Conference Papers

    Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning

    M. Asadpour; A. Sproewitz; A. Billard; P. Dillenbourg; A. J. Ijspeert 

    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

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Petreska; Y. Yovel 

    2008. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), Hong Kong, June 1-6. p. 2538-2544. DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634153.

    On the influence of symbols and myths in the responsibility ascription problem in roboethics – A roboticist’s perspective

    P-A. Mudry; S. Degallier; A. Billard 

    2008. RO-MAN, Münich, August 2008. p. 563–568. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2008.460072.

    Posters

    Human Motion Prediction in a Human-Robot Joint Task

    E. Gribovskaya; A. Billard 

    IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning.

    Neurocomputational modeling of imitation deficits

    B. Petreska; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Petreska; A. Billard 

    Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2008), colocated with NIPS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 8, 2008.

    Modeling Unconstrained Self-Oriented Movements

    B. Petreska; A. G. Billard 

    Neural Control of Movement Society Meeting (NCM 2008), Naples, Florida, April 29 – May 4.

    2007

    Journal Articles

    Auditory motion affects visual biological motion processing

    A. Brooks; R. van der Zwan; A. Billard; B. Petreska; S. Clarke et al. 

    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

    V. Perrin; E. Régulier; T. Abbas-Terki; R. Hassig; E. Brouillet et al. 

    Molecular Therapy. 2007. Vol. 15, num. 5, p. 903-11. DOI : 10.1038/mt.sj.6300141.

    Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements

    F. Guenter; M. Hersch; S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 13, p. 1521-1544. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782148550.

    Conference Papers

    A Model of Acquisition of Discrete Bimanual Coordination Skills for a Humanoid Robot

    E. Gribovskaya; A. Billard 

    2007. International Conference in Epigenetic Robotics.

    Analysis of Head Mounted Wireless Camera Videos for Early Diagnosis of Autism

    B. Noris; K. Benmachiche; J. Meynet; J-P. Thiran; A. Billard 

    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

    L. Piccardi; B. Noris; O. Barbey; A. Billard; G. Schiavone et al. 

    2007. RO-MAN’2007, 2007. p. 594-598. DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415154.

    Using Reinforcement Learning to Adapt an Imitation Task

    F. Guenter; A. Billard 

    2007. IROS’2007, 2007. p. 1022-1027. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399449.

    Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    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

    D. Daidie; O. Barbey; A. Guignard; D. Roussy; F. Guenter et al. 

    2007. AIM 2007, 2007-09-04. DOI : 10.1109/AIM.2007.4412571.

    Reviews

    Apraxia: a review

    B. Petreska; M. Adriani; O. Blanke; A. G. Billard 

    Progress in brain research. 2007. Vol. 164, p. 61-83. DOI : 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64004-7.

    2006

    Journal Articles

    Dynamic Updating of Distributed Neural Representations using Forward Models

    E. Sauser; A. Billard 

    Biological Cybernetics. 2006. Vol. 95(6), p. 567-588. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-006-0131-3.

    Conference Papers

    Robot Navigation by Panoramic Vision and Attention Guided Features

    A. Bur; A. Tapus; N. Ouerhani; R. Siegwart; H. Hügli 

    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

    E. Gribovskaya; N. Novikova 

    2006. Informational Technologies of Modeling and Control. p. 50-55.

    On one method of design of stable adaptive fuzzy control system

    E. Gribovskaya; A. Gribovskiy 

    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

    I. Goga; A. Billard 

    2006. TAROS 2006, Guildford, UK, 4-6 Sept 2006. p. 64-71.

    Attention mechanisms for the imitation of goal-directed action in developmental robots

    I. Goga; A. Billard 

    2006. EPIROB 2006, Paris, France, 20-22 Sept 2006.

    Books

    The Social Mechanisms of Robot Programming By Demonstration

    A. Billard; R. Dillmann 

    Elsevier, 2006.

    Working Papers

    Neural Modeling of Imitation Deficits

    B. Petreska; M. Adriani; O. Blanke; A. Billard 

    2006

    Posters

    A Neurocomputational Model of Impaired Imitation

    B. Petreska; A. Billard 

    first Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2006), San Diego (USA), 4 October 2006.

    Gait Analysis of Autistic Children with Echo State Networks

    B. Noris; M. Nobile; L. Piccini; M. Molteni; F. Keller et al. 

    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?

    B. Robins; K. Dautenhahn; R. te Boekhorst; A. Billard 

    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

    E. Sauser; A. Billard 

    Neurocomputing. 2005. Vol. 64, p. 5-24. DOI : 10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.019.

    Conference Papers

    A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits

    S. Calinon; J. Epiney; A. Billard 

    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

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    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

    F. Guenter; L. Roos; A. Guignard; A. Billard 

    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

    S. Calinon; F. Guenter; A. Billard 

    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

    A. Billard 

    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

    A. Maurer; M. Hersch; A. Billard 

    2005. ICANN’2005, 2005-09-05. p. 493–498. DOI : 10.1007/11550822_77.

    View Sensitive Cells as a Neural Basis for the Representation of Others in a Self-Centered Frame of Reference

    E. Sauser; A. Billard 

    2005. Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Hatfield, UK, p. 119-127.

    Posters

    Modeling of Imitation Deficits in Apraxic Patients

    B. Petreska; M. Adriani; O. Blanke 

    ESF Research Conference on Brain Development and Cognition in Human Infants, Maratea (Italy), 2005.

    2004

    Journal Articles

    Coevolution of active vision and feature selection

    D. Floreano; T. Kato; D. Marocco; E. Sauser 

    Biological Cybernetics. 2004. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218–228. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-004-0467-5.

    Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies

    A. Billard; Y. Epars; S. Calinon; G. Cheng; S. Schaal 

    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?

    B. Robins; K. Dautenhahn; R. te Boekhorst 

    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

    E. Sauser; A. Billard 

    2004. 12th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges (Belgium), p. 543-548.

    Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition Model for a Humanoid Robot

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Robins; K. Dautenhahn; R. te Boekhorst; A. Billard 

    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

    F. Guenter; A. Guignard; L. Piccardi; M. Calzascia; A. Billard 

    2004. IEEE/APS conference on Mechatronics and Robotics.

    Gesture Recognition and Reproduction for a Humanoid Robot using Hidden Markov Models

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    2004. AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms.

    Books

    EDITORIAL: Robot Programming By Demonstration

    A. Billard; R. Siegwart 

    2004.

    Reports

    Stereoscopic Vision and Trajectory Recognition

    C. Dubach 

    2004

    2003

    Journal Articles

    Robota: Clever Toy and Educational Tool

    A. Billard 

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2003. Vol. 42, p. 259-269. DOI : 10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00380-9.

    Computational approaches to motor learning by imitation

    S. Schaal; A. J. Ijspeert; A. Billard 

    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

    R. Chavarriaga; E. Sauser; W. Gerstner 

    2003. Twelfth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2003, Alicante, Spain,

    PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots

    S. Calinon; A. Billard 

    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

    B. Robins; K. Dautenhahn; R. te Boekhorst; A. Billard 

    2003. CWUATT.

    Discovering Imitation Strategies through Categorization of Multi-Dimensional Data

    A. Billard; Y. Epars; S. Schaal; G. Cheng 

    2003. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.. p. 2398-2403. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1249229.

    Student Projects

    PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots using Speech and Vision Processing

    S. Calinon 

    2003.

    2002

    Journal Articles

    Imitation of coordinated arm movements

    A. Billard; S. Schaal; J. Gordon 

    Experimental Brain Research. 2002. 

    Conference Papers

    Games children with autism can play with robota, a humanoid robotics doll

    K. Dautenhahn; A. Billard 

    2002. 1st Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, March 2002. p. 179–190. DOI : 10.1007/978-1-4471-3719-1_18.

    Computational elements of robot learning by imitation

    A. Billard; S. Schaal 

    2002. 980th American Mathematical Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 12-13.

    Book Chapters

    Imitation

    A. Billard; M. Arbib 

    Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks; MIT Press, 2002. p. 566-569.

    Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota

    A. Billard 

    Socially Intelligent Agents; Kluwer publisher, 2002. p. 165-173.

    Mirror neurons, and the neural basis for learning by imitation: Computational modeling

    A. Billard; M. Arbib; M. Stamenov; V. Gallese 

    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

    A. Billard 

    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

    M. Christel; A. Billard 

    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

    A. Billard; M. Mataric 

    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

    A. Ijspeert; A. Martinoli; A. Billard; L. M. Gambardella 

    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

    A. Billard; S. Schaal 

    2001. International Conference on Intelligent and Robotics Systems, Hawaii, November, 2001. p. 734-739.

    A neural model of morpheme representation

    M. Klein; A. Billard 

    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

    A. Billard; M. Arbib 

    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

    M. Arbib; A. Billard; M. Iacobonni; E. Oztop 

    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

    A. Billard 

    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

    A. Billard; M. Mataric 

    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

    A. Billard; A. Ijspeert 

    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

    A. Billard; M. Mataric 

    2000. Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, May 24-27, 2000.

    Learning motor skills by imitation

    A. Billard; M. Mataric 

    2000. 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, Los Angeles, May 20, 2000.

    Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota

    A. Billard 

    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!”

    A. Billard; M. Mataric 

    2000. Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment, CMU, Pittsburgh, April 30 – Mai 1, 2000.

    A biologically inspired robotic model for learning by imitation

    A. Billard; M. Mataric 

    2000. Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000. p. 373-380. DOI : 10.1145/336595.337544.

    1999

    Journal Articles

    Experiments in social robotics: grounding and use of communication in autonomous agents

    A. Billard; K. Dautenhahn 

    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

    A. Billard 

    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

    A. Billard; G. Hayes 

    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

    A. Billard; A. Ijspeert; A. Martinoli 

    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

    A. Billard; A. Ijspeert; A. Martinoli 

    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

    A. Billard 

    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

    K. Dautenhahn; A. Billard 

    1999. Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Seattle, Washington, USA, p. 366-367.

    Studying Robot Social Cognition Within a Developmental Psychology Framework

    K. Dautenhahn; A. Billard 

    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

    A. Billard; K. Dautenhahn 

    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

    A. Billard; K. Dautenhahn; G. Hayes 

    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

    H. Lund; O. Miglino; L. Pagliarini; A. Billard; A. Ijspeert 

    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

    A. Billard / A. Billard (Dir.)  

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1998. 

    Book Chapters

    Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots

    A. Billard; G. Hayes 

    Learning Robots: A Multi-Perspective Exploration; Springer-Verlag, 1998. p. 79-95.

    1997

    Conference Papers

    Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots

    A. Billard; G. Hayes 

    1997. Sixth European Workshop on Learning Robots, Brighton, July, 1997. p. 79-94.

    Learning to Communicate through Imitation in Autonomous robots

    A. Billard; G. Hayes 

    1997. 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Lausanne, CH, October 1997. p. 763-768. DOI : 10.1007/BFb0020246.

    Grounding communication in situated, social robots

    A. Billard; K. Dautenhahn 

    1997. Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots Conference, Manchester,

    ‘Robot’s first steps, Robot’s first words …’

    A. Billard; G. Hayes 

    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

    A. Billard; K. Dautenhahn 

    1996

    Reports

    Grounding communication in situated, social robots

    A. Billard; K. Dautenhahn 

    1996

    ‘Allo Kazam, do you follow me?’ Learning to speak through imitation for social robots

    A. Billard 

    1996