Abstract In this paper a brief overview on the German Collaborative Research Center on Humanoid Robots is given. The research topics focused by the collaborative research center are multimodal man-machine interaction, learning of motion, skills and tasks, man-robot cooperation, perception and action and mechatronics and controls for a human like torus consisting of 2 redundant arms, 2 dexterous 5-finger hands, a head with eyes and ears, a neck and a spine. The project started in July 2001 and is planned in long terms for a period of up to 12 years. Over this period it is envisaged to elaborate and establish basic methodologies and technology for humanoid robots to act and cooperate close with humans in daily living environment. An integrated perspective towards continuous humanoid inter-action gaining multimodality, adaptivity, redundancy and flexibility is proposed. Programming, cooperation and interaction with a humanoid robot is assumed to be multimodal which means to let the user program the robot simply by speech, gesture or demonstrating a task. The robot observes, interprets and then tries to imitate and to learn the performed user action. On the basis of a redundant humanoid type 2 arm robot system equipped with an active stereo head and a microphone array observation of the demonstrated task is realized as a first prototype using an active vision system. Grasping of objects is detected with the help of data gloves and active vision. The system interprets and stores the observed actions, segments them into meaningful sequences in a given context. Due to sensor errors and the complexity of the intended interaction, the system generates queries concerning intention, manipulation and objects. Motion catch techniques in combination with learning capabilities are combined towards imitation learning and active observational learning strategies.
The German Collaborative Research Centre on Humanoid Robots
01.01.2003
14 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Humanoid Robot , Gesture Recognition , Multimodal User Interface , Microphone Array , Imitation Learning Engineering , Robotics and Automation , Control, Robotics, Mechatronics , Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) , Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering , Machinery and Machine Elements
Collaborative Music Performances with Humanoid Robots and Humans
Springer Verlag | 2024
|Statistical Learning for Humanoid Robots
British Library Online Contents | 2002
|