Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and Reproduce Social Cues (2006)
| Venue: | IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION (RO-MAN 2006) |
| Citations: | 5 - 3 self |
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@MISC{Calinon06teachinga,
author = {Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard},
title = {Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and Reproduce Social Cues},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
In a Robot Programming by Demonstration framework, several demonstrations of a task are required to generalize and reproduce the task under different circumstances. To teach a task to the robot, explicit pointers are required to signal the start/end of a demonstration and to switch between the learning/reproduction phases. Coordination of the learning system can be achieved by adding social cues to the interaction process. Here, we propose to use an imitation game to teach a humanoid robot to recognize communicative gestures, which then serve as social signals in a pointing-at-objects scenario. The system is based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and use motion sensors to track the user's gestures.
