Continuous Goal-Directed Actions (CGDA)

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Description

The search for the Grial of generalizing robot actions continues! In Continuous Goal-Directed Actions (CGDA), our robot imitation framework, an action is modelled as the changes it produces on the environment. First, record all the features you can off some user demonstrations. By features, we mean features! The robot joint q2 angle, a human hand Z coordinate, the percentage of a wall painted, the square of the room temperature plus ambient noise… Throw in a demonstration and feature selection algorithm, let it decide which demonstrations were consistent, and which features are relevant. You now have an action encoded as a CGDA model, which is essentially a multi-dimensional time series. As described in its first conference paper, recognition can be performed using costs such as those extracted by DTW, and execution can be achieved by evolutionary algorithms in a simulated environment. While we have performed some work in combining sequences of random movements, we are mostly content with the evolutionary strategies we later developed, such as IET. Additional references include the original S. Morante PhD thesis.

Entries:
Usability assessment of ASIBOT: a portable robot to aid patients with spinal cord injury
Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. , pages: 1 – 11 , 2010
A. Jardon C.A. Monje A. Gil A. Peña
The MATS robot: Service Climbing Robot for Personal Assistance
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. num. 1 , vol. 13 , pages: 51 – 58 , 2006
A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Robots applications against gravity
IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine. num. 1 , vol. 13 , pages: 5 – 6 , 2006

Entries:
Benchmarking Shared Control for Assistive Manipulators: From Controllability to the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal
M.F. Stoelen F. Bonsignorio A. Jardon
Experimental evaluation of assistive robots in virtual domestic scenarios
International Symposium for Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC/Gerontechnology 2012). Vol. 11. Num. 2, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
A. Jardon Juan G. Victores M.F. Stoelen S. Martinez
Methodologies for Experimental Evaluation of Assistive Robotics HRI
ROBOCITY2030 9TH WORKSHOP: ROBOTS COLABORATIVOS E INTERACCION HUMANO-ROBOT, 2011, Madrid, Spain
M.F. Stoelen A. Jardon V. Tejada Juan G. Victores S. Martinez F. Bonsignorio
An information-theoretic approach to modeling and quantifying assistive robotics HRI
Late Breaking Report, Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI), Lausanne, Switzerland
M.F. Stoelen F. Bonsignorio A. Jardon
Assistive robots dependability in domestic environment: the ASIBOT kitchen test bed
IARP-IEEE/RAS-EURON Joint Workshop on Shared Control for Robotic Ultra-operations, San Diego, California, Oct 28-30, 2007, 2007, San Diego, CA, EEUU
A. Gimenez S. Martinez A. Jardon
A. I. de la Peña González, A. M. Gil Agudo, Functional Evaluation of ASIBOT, a Portable Robot to Aid Disabled Persons
In Proceedings II International Congress on Domotics, Robotics and Remote‐Assistance for All DRT4all 2007, 2007, Madrid, SPAIN
A. Jardon
Live experimentation of the service robot applicationselderly people care in home environments
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2005), Edmonton, Canada
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Wireless Teleoperation of an Assistive Robot by PDA
The 1st IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications In Automation and Robotics, 2004, Helsinki, Finland
R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon

Entries:
Progress in Robotics. Communications in Computer and Information Science 44
chapter: Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot pages: 86 – 95. Springer , ISBN: 978-3-642-03985, 2009
A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
M. Ferre, M. Buss, C. Melchiorri. Advances in Telerobotics
chapter: Introduction to Advances in Telerobotics pages: 1 – 10. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31 , ISBN: 978-3-540-71363, 2007

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