Humanoids2000 - The First IEEE-RAS International Conference on
Humanoid Robots

 

Humanoids2000 - Papers Sorted by Title

H. Lim; A. Takanishi
Department of System Design Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Humanoid Research Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

A Biped Humanoid Robot for Human-robot Coexistence

S. Kagami; K. Nishiwaki; T. Kitagawa; T. Sugihara; M. Inaba; H. Inoue
Dept. of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan

A Fast Generation Method of Dynamically Stable Humanoid Robot Trajectory with Enhanced ZMP Constraint

B. Jia; N. Ohnishi
Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center, RIKEN, Nagoya, Japan

A Real-time Binocular Tracking System

H. Sugiuchi; Y. Hasegawa; S. Watanabe; M. Nomoto; H. Yagi
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan; Yamatake Techno-Systems Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan; The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; United Systems Engineers Inc., Shiojiri Nagano, Japan

A Task Description System for Multi-Fingered Robotic Hand with Distributed Touch Sensor

J. A. Waskan
Philosophy Department, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, USA

A Virtual Solution to the Frame Problem

K. Ogawara; J. Takamatsu; S. Iba; T. Tanuki; H. Kimura; K. Ikeuchi
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan; The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA; Research Division, Komatsu Ltd. Kanagawa, Japan; University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Acquiring hand-action models in task and behavior levels by a learning robot through observing human demonstrations

M. Shimizu; T. Furuta; K. Tomiyama
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

An Autonomous Behaviour Generation Architecture for Humanoids

A. Fod; M. Mataric; O. C. Jenkins
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Automated Extraction of Primitives for Movement Classification

A. Ude; C. Man; M. Riley; C. G. Atkeson
ATR-I Information Sciences Division, Kyoto, Japan; College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Automatic Generation of Kinematic Models for the Conversion of Human Motion Capture Data into Humanoid Robot Motion

J. W. Brown; D. Bullock; S. Grossberg
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Biomimetic Circuits for Automonomously Learning to Selectively Respond to Unexpected Reward Related Events

M. Folgheraiter; G. Gini
DEI, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Blackfingers: An Artificial Hand that Copies Human Hand on Structure, Size, and Functions

C. Schäfer; R. Dillmann
Dpto. de Automatica (DISAM), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Inst. for Process Control and Robotics, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Building Bodies for Brains: The Mechatronics of Anthropomorphic Robot Arms

E. Vatikiotis-Bateson; C. Kroos; T. Kuratate; K. G. Munhall; P. Rubin; H. C. Yehia
ATR-I Information Sciences Division, Kyoto, Japan; Psychology Dept., Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Haskins Laboratories and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Dept. Engenharia Electronica, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Building Talking Heads: Production Based Synthesis of Audiovisual Speech

M. Asada; K. F. MacDorman; Y. Kuniyoshi; H. Ishiguro
Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University, Suita, Japan; Department of Systems and Human Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan; Humanoid Interaction Laboratory, ETL, Tsukuba; Computer and Communication Sciences, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan

Cognitive Developmental Robotics As a New Paradigm for the Design of Humanoid Robots

G. Cheng; A. Nagakubo; Y. Kuniyoshi
Humanoid Interaction Laboratory, Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ibariki, Tsukuba, Japan

Continuous Humanoid Interaction: An Integrated Perspective - Gaining Adaptivity, Redundancy, Flexibility - in one

H. Aldridge; W. Bluethmann; R. Ambrose; M. Diftler
NASA Johnson Space Center, Robotics Systems Technology Branch, Houston, TX, USA; Hernandez Engineering Inc., Houston, TX, USA; Metrica Inc., Houston, TX, USA; Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems and Services, Houston, TX, USA

Control Architecture for the Robonaut Space Humanoid

T. Furuta; Y. Okomura; K. Tomiyama
Eng. Systems Lab., Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Design and Construction of a Series of Compact Humanoid Robots and Development of Biped Walk Control Strategies

D. Paluska; J. Pratt; D. Robinson; G. Pratt
MIT Leg Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

Design of a Humanoid Biped Robot for Walking Research

T. Bräunl
The University of Western Australia, Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Perth, Western Australia

Design of Low-Cost Android Robots

J. Coelho; J. Piater; R. Grupen
Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

Developing Haptic and Visual Perceptual Categories for Reaching and Grasping with a Humanoid Robot

S. Nahavandi; A. Z. Kouzani
School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Development of a rotary pneumatic muscle-based actuator for anthropomorphic joints

M. Tada; M. Imai; T. Ogasawara
Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan

Development of Simultaneous Measurement System of Incipient Slip and Grip/Load Force

J. Weng; W. S. Hwang; Y. Zhang; C. Yang; R. J. Smith
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Developmental Humanoids: Humanoids that Develop Skills Automatically

F. Kanehiro; M. Inaba; H. Inoue; S. Hirai
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Dept. of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Developmental Realization of Whole-Body Humanoid Behaviors Based on StateNet Architecture Containing Error Recovery Functions

J. Kuffner, Jr.; S. Kagami; M. Inaba; H. Inoue
Dept. of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan

Dynamically-stable Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

T. Ogata; S. Sugano
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Emotional Communication Robot: WAMOEBA-2R -- Emotion Model and Evaluation Experiments

M. Pomplun; M. Mataric;
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Comp. Science Dept., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Evaluation Metrics and Results of Human Arm Movement Imitation

F. Asano; M. Yamakita
Department of Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Department of Control and Systems Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Extended PVFC with Variable Velocity Fields for Kneed Biped

X. Yin; M. Xie
Robotic Research Center, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Finger Identification in Hand Gesture Based Human-Robot Interaction

C. Malcolm
Institute of Perception Action & Behaviour, Division of Informatics, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK

From COGWHEELS to COGNITION - The knowledgeable Robot

E. Mousset; M. Jabri; S. Carlile; T. Sejnowski
Computer Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia; Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Sydney, Australia; Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA

Gaze-Shifting in Humans and Humanoids

C. Laschi; P. Dario; M. C. Carrozza; E. Guglielmelli; G. Teti; D. Taddeucci; F. Leoni; B. Massa; M. Zecca; R. Lazzarini
Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Pisa, Italy; Centro INAIL RTR, Viareggio, Italy

Grasping and Manipulation in Humanoid Robotics

H. Inoue; S. Tachi; K. Tanie; K.Yokoi; S. Hirai; H. Hirukawa; K. Hirai; S. Nakayama; K. Sawada; T. Nishiyama; O. Miki; T. Itoko; H. Inaba; M. Sudo
University of Tokyo; Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, MITI; Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI; Honda R & D Co. Ltd. Wako Research Center; Advanced Technology Research Laboratory, Matsushita Electric Works Ltd.; Electronic and Control Technology Development Center, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd; Fanuc, Ltd., Japan

HRP: Humanoid Robotics Project of MITI

H. Iwata; H. Hoshino; T. Morita; S. Sugano
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Human Robot Physical Interaction Utilizing Force Detectable Tactile Covers

K. Nakadai; H. G. Okuno; T. Laurens; H. Kitano
Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corp., Tokyo, Japan; Department of Information Sciences, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Japan; Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Humanoid Active Audition System

S. Hashimoto; S. Narita; H. Kasahara; K. Shirai; T. Kobayashi; A. Takanishi; S. Sugano; J. Yamaguchi; H. Sawada; H. Takanobu; K. Shibuya; T. Morita; T. Kurata; N. Onoe; K. Ouchi; T. Noguchi; Y. Niwa; S. Nagayama; ; H. Tabayashi; I. Matsui; M. Obata; H. Matsuzaki; A. Murasugi; T. Kobayashi; S. Haruyama; T. Okada; Y. Hidaki; Y. Taguchi; K. Hoashi; E. Morikawa; Y. Iwano; D. Araki; J. Suzuki; M. Yokoyama; I. Dawa; D. Nishino; S. Inoue; T. Hirano; E. Soga; S. Gen; T. Yanada; K. Kato; S. Sakamoto; Y. Ishii; S. Matsuo; Y. Yamamoto; K. Sato; T. Hagiwara; T. Ueda; N. Honda; K. Hashimoto; T. Hanamoto; S. Kayaba; T. Kojima, H. Iwata; H. Kubodera; R. Matsuki; T. Nakajima; K. Nitto; D. Yamamoto; Y. Kamizaki; S. Nagaike; Y. Kunitake; S. Morita
Humanoid Research Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Humanoid Robots in Waseda University -- Hadaly-2 and WABIAN

Y. Nakamura; K. Yamane
Department of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo; CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan

Interactive Motion Generation of Humanoid Robots via Dynamics Filter

A. Billard; M. Mataric
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Learning human arm movements by imitation: Evaluation of a biologically-inspired connectionist architecture

C. Zhou
Department of Electrical and Electronical Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

Linguistic and Numeral Heterogenous Data Integration with Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robots

C. Campbell
Department of Engineering Mathematics, Bristol University, Bristol, UK

Machine Learning Strategies for Complex Tasks

J. Huang; M. A. Jabri; O. J.-M. D. Coenen; T. J. Sejnowski
Computer Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sidney, Australia; Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, UCSD Biology Dept., Physics Dept.; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA; Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Beaverton, OR, USA

Models of Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum for Sensorimotor Integration and Predictive control

S. F. Giszter; K. A. Moxon; I. A. Rybak; J. K. Chapin
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCPHU School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Dept. Physiology, Health Science Center, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Neurobiological and neurorobotic approaches to a control architecture for a humanoid motor system

S. Schaal; S. Kotosaka; D. Sternad
Computer Science and Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA; Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA; Kawato Dynamic Brain Project (ERATO/JST) Kyoto, Japan

Nonlinear dynamical systems as movement primitives

J. Hu; G. Pratt
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachuetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Nonlinear Switching control of Bipedal Walking Robots with Provable Stability

M. J. E. Richardson; T. Flash
Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France; Department of Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

On the Emulation of Natural Movements by Humanoid Robots

F. Yamasaki; T. Matsui; T. Miyashita; H. Kitano
Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

PINO - The Humanoid that Walks

J. G. Hale; F. E. Pollick
Human Information Processing Labs, ATR International; Dept. of Computer Science, University of Glasgow; Dept. of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Playing "Sticky Hands" With A Humanoid Robot

O. C. Jenkins; M. J. Mataric; S. Weber
Comp. Science Dept., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Primitive-Based Movement Classification for Humanoid Imitation

S. Vijayakumar; S. Schaal
Computer Science & Neuroscience and Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, University of Southern Calif., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Real Time Learning in Humanoids: A challenge for scalability of online algorithms

C. Breazeal; L. Aryananda
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Recognition of Affective Communicative Intent in Robot-Directed Speech

S. Kawaji; K. Ogasawara
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Rhythm-based Locomotion Control for Biped Robots

M. Riley; C. Atkeson
ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan; College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Robot Catching

K.-T. Song; Y.-H. Chen
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu,Taiwan, R.O.C

Robot control in dynamic environments using a fuzzy clustering network

A. Stoica
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

Robot Fostering Techniques for Sensory-Motor Development of Humanoid Robots

J. H. Graham
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Dept., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

Safety Considerations for Humanoid Robots

T. Lourens; K. Nakadai; H. G. Okuno; H. Kitano
Kitano Symbiotic System Project, ERATO, Tokyo; Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Selective Attention by Integration of Vision and Audition

C. Breazeal; A. Edsinger; P. Fitzpatrick; B. Scassellati
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Social constraints on animate vision

D. Taddeucci; P. Gorce; Y. Burnod; J. Lopez-Coronado; J. L. Pedreño-Molina; A. Guerrero-González; C. Laschi; P. Dario
Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Pisa, Italy; U483 INSERM, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain

SYNERAGH, a European Project on Anthropomorphic Grasping and Handling for Humanoid Robots

A. L. Kun; W. T. Miller III
University of New Hampshire, ECE Department, Kingsbury Hall, Durham, NH, USA

The Design Process of the Unified Walking Controller for the UNH Biped

Caffaz; G. Casalino; G. Cannata; G. Panin; E. Massucco
DIST, University of Genoa, Italy

The DIST-Hand, an Anthropomorphic, Fully Sensorized Dexterous Gripper

R. L. B. French; R. I. Damper; T. W. Scutt
Image, Speech and Intelligent Systems Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK; Core Design Ltd., Derby, UK

The Hi-NOON Neural Simulator and its Applications to Animal, Animat and Humanoid Studies

T. Asfour; K. Berns; R. Dillmann
Institute for Process Control and Robotics, Computer Science Department, University of Karlsruhe and Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany

The Humanoid Robot ARMAR: Design and Control

B. Scassellati
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot

K. Kawamura; A. Alford; K. Hambuchen; M. Wilkes
Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Towards a Unified Framework for Human-Humanoid Interaction

R. Bischoff
Bundeswehr University Munich, The Institute of Measurement Science, Neubiberg, Germany

Towards the Development of ‘Plug-and-Play’ Personal Robots

D. Bentivegna; C. G. Atkeson
ATR-International, Information Sciences Division, Kyoto, Japan; College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA

Using Primitives in Learning From Observation

Y. Nakamura; H. Hirukawa; K. Yamane; S. Kajita; K. Yokoi; K. Tanie; M. G. Fujie; A. Takanishi; K. Fujiwara; F. Kanehiro; T. Suehiro; N. Kita; Y. Kita; S. Hirai; F. Nagashima; Y. Murase; M. Inaba; H. Inoue
University of Tokyo; Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI; Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, MITI; Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.; Waseda University; Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

V-HRP: Virtual Humanoid Robot Platform

O. Lorch; J. Denk; J. F. Seara; M. Buss; F. Freyberger; G. Schmidt
Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany

ViGWaM - An Emulation Environment for a Vision Guided Virtual Walking Machine

H. Takanobu; E. Guglielmelli; H. Tabayashi; S. Narita; A. Takanishi; P. Dario
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; ARTS Lab (Advanced Technology and Systems Laboratory), Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy; Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Waseda-SSSA Joint Research for Human and Humanoid Robot Interaction


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