Combining dynamical systems control and programmingby demonstration for teaching discrete bimanual coordination tasks to a humanoid robot

  • Authors:
  • Elena Gribovskaya;Aude Billard

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a generic framework that combines Dynamical Systems movement control with Programming by Demonstration (PbD) to teach a robot bimanual coordination task. The model consists of two systems: a learning system that processes data collected during the demonstration of the task to extract coordination constraints and a motor system that reproduces the movements dynamically, while satisfying the coordination constraints learned by the first system. We validate the model through a series of experiments in which a robot is taught bimanual manipulatory tasks with the help of a human.