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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Robot Imitation Learning of Social Gestures with Self-Collision Avoidance Using a 3D Sensor.

Tan Zhang, Wing-Yue Louie, Goldie Nejat, Beno Benhabib

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Development and Application of a Tandem Force Sensor.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  2. Smart Environments and Social Robots for Age-Friendly Integrated Care Services.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 authors.

Tan ZhangAutonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S3G8, Canada. tan.zhang@utoronto.ca.
Wing-Yue LouieAutonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S3G8, Canada. geoffrey.louie@utoronto.ca.
Goldie NejatAutonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S3G8, Canada. nejat@mie.utoronto.ca.
Beno BenhabibComputer Integrated Manufacturing Lab, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S3G8, Canada. benhabib@mie.utoronto.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To effectively interact with people, social robots need to perceive human behaviors and in turn display their own behaviors using social communication modes such as gestures. The modeling of gestures can be difficult due to the high dimensionality of the robot configuration space. Imitation learning can be used to teach a robot to implement multi-jointed arm gestures by directly observing a human teacher's arm movements (for example, using a non-contact 3D sensor) and then mapping these movements onto the robot arms. In this paper, we present a novel imitation learning system with robot self-collision awareness and avoidance. The proposed method uses a kinematical approach with bounding volumes to detect and avoid collisions with the robot itself while performing gesticulations. We conducted experiments with a dual arm social robot and a 3D sensor to determine the effectiveness of our imitation system in being able to mimic gestures while avoiding self-collisions.

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imitation learningmulti-jointed arm gesturesself-collision avoidancesocial robots

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PMID30036976
PMCPMC6069409

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