General Information

• For a general course description please read the corresponding pages from from the WIAI module guide.
• You find administrative information  at UnivIS.
• Participants should sign up for the course in the virtual campus.
• This course addresses master students and doctoral students.
• Recommended for bachelor students in the 3rd semester and master students
• The course is held in block form 

 Topic: 

Experimenting with a Humanoid Robot - Programming NAO to (Inter-)Act

Since the 1980ies humanoide robots are developped in basic research and different areas of application -- especially of robots as intelligent partners -- are explored.

In the seminar source, different aspects of research on humanoid robots will be theoretically introduced by talks and in practical sessions implemented on NAO.

Focus are the topics human-robot-interaction, action planning, and learning.

Recommended Reading / Links

Paper:

• Pollard, Nancy S., et al. "Adapting human motion for the control of a humanoid robot." Robotics and Automation, 2002. Proceedings. ICRA'02. IEEE International Conference on. Vol. 2. IEEE, 2002.

• DiSalvo, Carl F., et al. "All robots are not created equal: the design and perception of humanoid robot heads." Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques. ACM, 2002.

• Calinon, Sylvain, Florent Guenter, and Aude Billard. "On learning, representing, and generalizing a task in a humanoid robot." Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on 37.2 (2007): 286-298.

• Meriçli, Çetin, and Manuela M. Veloso. "Biped Walk Learning Through Playback and Corrective Demonstration." AAAI. 2010.

• Schillaci, Guido, Saša Bodiroža, and Verena Vanessa Hafner. "Evaluating the effect of saliency detection and attention manipulation in human-robot interaction." International Journal of Social Robotics 5.1 (2013): 139-152.

• Antonelli, Marco, et al. "Augmenting the reachable space in the nao humanoid robot." Workshops at the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2012.

• Chernova, Sonia, et al. "The AAAI 2011 Robot Exhibition." AI Magazine 33.1 (2012): 43-50.

• Subramanian, Kaushik. "Task Space Behavior Learning for Humanoid Robots using Gaussian Mixture Models." AAAI. 2010.

• Gutmann, Jens-Steffen, Masaki Fukuchi, and Masahiro Fujita. "Real-time path planning for humanoid robot navigation." international joint conference on artificial intelligence. Vol. 19. LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES LTD, 2005.

Some references:

• Aldebaran Community – Documentation & Tutorials
• Robotics Group of University of León

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