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.

Learning control Lyapunov function to ensure stability of dynamical system-based robot reaching motions

S. M. Khansari-Zadeh; A. Billard 

Robotics And Autonomous Systems. 2014. Vol. 62, num. 6, p. 752-765. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2014.03.001.

Catching Objects in Flight

S. Kim; A. Shukla; A. Billard 

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

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

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

M. Davila-Ross; J. Hutchinson; J. L. Russell; J. Schaeffer; A. Billard et al. 

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

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.

Rewards-Driven Control of Robot Arm by Decoding EEG Signals

A. K. Tanwani; J. d. R. Millán; A. Billard 

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

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

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

N. Sommer; M. Li; A. Billard 

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

M. Li; H. Yin; K. Tahara; A. Billard 

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

A. Shukla / A. Billard (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Rapid and reactive robot control framework for catching objects in flight

S. Kim / 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.