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Robot Programming by Demonstration - Sylvain Calinon - EPFL Press English Imprint

Robot Programming by Demonstration

A Probabilistic Approach

by Sylvain Calinon (author)
Collection: Micro- and nanotechnology
july 2009
Book
160 x 240 format 234 pages Unavailable
94,79 €

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Robot Programming by Demonstration (PbD) examines methods by which a robot learns new skills through human guidance. Also referred to as learning by imitation, tutelage or apprenticeship learning, PbD takes inspiration from the way humans learn new skills by imitation, thereby developing methods by which new skills can be transmitted to a robot. PbD covers a broad range of applications. In industrial settings, the goal is to reduce the time and costs required to program the robot, where the rationale is to create, modify or assemble a product in a very rapid way without requiring help from an expert in robotics. PbD is perceived as particularly useful when it comes to service robots, i.e., robots deemed to work in direct collaboration with humans. In this case, methods for PbD go beyond transferring skills and offer new ways for the robot to interact with the human, from being capable of recognizing people's motion to predicting their intentions and seconding them in the accomplishment of complex tasks. The present work addresses both challenges in investigating methods by which PbD is used to provide the robot with a generic and adaptive model of control. Robot programming by demonstration: A probabilistic approach” takes a practitioner's perspective and is relevant for anyone involved in robotics research or human-robot interaction, or who simply wants to discover and understand how to transfer skills to robots by imitation. The findings presented in this book emerge from various disciplines such as robot control, human-robot interaction, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence. It also takes insights from developmental and cognitive psychology. The book contains a large set of didactic and illustrative examples linked with comprehensive and practical machine learning sourcecodes available on the book's companion website: http://www.programming-by-demonstration.org

Content

  • Introduction
  • System architecture
  • Comparasion and optimisation of the parameters
  • Extension to dynamical system and handling of perturbations
  • Transferring skills through active teaching methods
  • Using social cues to speed up the learning process
  • Discussion, Future work and conclusions
  • References
  • Index

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Details

Publisher: EPFL Press English Imprint

Author(s): Sylvain Calinon

Collection: Micro- and nanotechnology

Published: 16 july 2009

Edition: 1st edition

Media: Book

Pages count Book: 234

Format (in mm) Book: 160 x 240

Weight (in grammes): 590

Language(s): English

EAN13 Book: 9782940222315

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