Robot skills are low-level motion and/or grasping capabilities that constitute the basic building blocks from which tasks are built. Teaching and recognition of such skills can be done by Programming-by-Demonstration approach. A human operator demonstrates certain skills while his motions are recorded by a datacapturing device and modeled in our case via fuzzy clustering and Takagi-Sugeno model...

Did nineteenth century technology reduce demand for skilled workers in contrast to modern technology? I obtain direct evidence on human capital investments and the returns to skill by using micro-data on individual weavers and an engineering production function. Weavers learned substantially on the job. While mechanization eliminated some tasks and the associated skills, it increased returns to...

This paper presents a skill learning model Clarion. Diierent from existing models of mostly high-level skill learning that use a top-down approach (that is, turning declarative knowledge into procedural knowledge), we adopt a bottom-up approach toward low-level skill learning, where procedural knowledge develops rst and declarative knowledge develops from it. Clarion which follows this approach...

In this paper we provide an insight into the skill representation, where skill representation is seen as an essential part of the skill assessment stage in the Computational Red Teaming process. Skill representation is demonstrated in the context of Sudoku puzzle, for which the real human skills used in Sudoku solving, along with their acquisition, are represented computationally in a cognitive...

We present a skill learning model CLARION. Different from existing models of high-level skill learning that use a topdown approach (that is, turning declarative knowledge into procedural knowledge), we adopt a bottom-up approach toward low-level skill learning, where procedural knowledge develops first and declarative knowledge develops later. CLARION is formed by integrating connectionist, rei...

This paper lays the groundwork for a theory of time allocation across the life course, based on the idea that strength and skill vary as a function of age, and that return rates for different activities vary as a function of the combination of strength and skills involved in performing those tasks. We apply the model to traditional human subsistence patterns. The model predicts that young child...

In this paper a basic skill vector characterization of occupations is used to examine the relation between human capital specificity and occupational mobility. Specifically, the paper asks, how much occupational mobility is simply moving a given skill or task set around different occupations that use the same skill set, and how much involves major shifts in the skill vectors? The loss of specif...

Human can handle a deformable object and damp its vibration with recognized skill. However, for an industrial robot, handling a deformable object with acute vibration is often a difficult task. This paper addresses the problem of active damping skill for handling deformable linear objects (DLOs) by using a strategy inspired from human manipulation skills. The strategy is illustrated by several ...