This study addresses encounter interactions in public environments where people and robots walk around. In daily life, security guards, police officers, and sales clerks roam around environments and nonverbally present friendly behavior so that people feel comfortable talking to them. We modeled the behavior of human experts during friendly patrolling, which we defined as a roaming behavior tha...

Why is walking easy for us and difficult for robots? The conceptual framework of traditional Artificial Intelligence, and constraints from the background of industrial robot designers, means that commercial humanoid design has often ignored the role of natural dynamics of a mechanical system, as illustrated in a Passive Dynamic Walker. We show, using a Dynamical Systems approach and Evolutionar...

The Dynamical Systems Design department at the Eindhoven University of Eindhoven is actively researching the design and control of robotic systems. Examples are Amigo, the service robot competing in the RoboCup @home league, the mid-size league soccer robots of Tech United and the Tulip which is the humanoid robot competing in the RoboCup humanoid adult league. One of the new research activitie...

Assistive humanoid robots operating in everyday life environments have to autonomously navigate and perform several tasks. In this paper we propose a neural network based humanoid robot navigation and arm trajectory generation. The robotic system, which is equipped with a visual sensor, laser range finders, navigates in the environment. The neural controllers generate the robot arm motion in dy...

Humanoid robots have the potential to become a part of everyday life as their hardware and software challenges are being solved. In this paper we present a system that gets as input a motion trajectory in the form of motion capture data, and produces a controller that controls a humanoid robot in real-time to achieve a motion trajectory that is similar to the input motion data. The controller e...

A desktop class humanoid robot, morph3, developed for humanoid robotics is described. Consideration to body form is given in order to appeal to a general audience. 138 sensors such as accelerometers, rate gyros, pressure sensors, and force sensors are mounted on morph3. We describe the electrical network which is utilized onboard the humanoid body, and describe some advantages of the system. Ac...

The development of a humanoid robot in the collaborative research centre 588 has the objective of creating a machine that closely cooperates with humans. The collaborative research centre 588 (SFB588) “Humanoid Robots – learning and cooperating multi-modal robots” was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Karlsruhe in May 2000. The SFB588 is a cooperation of the University of K...

For many target optimization and learning tasks the sample cost of performing the task is very expensive or time consuming such that attempting to directly employ a learning algorithm on the task becomes intractable. For this reason learning is instead often performed on a less expensive task that is believed to be a reasonable approximation of the actual target task. This paper serves to prese...

This paper develops a brain-computer-interface (BCI) based humanoid robot control system. The system consists of an electroencephalograph (EEG), a humanoid robot, and a CCD camera. The goal of our study is to control humanoid walking behavior through neural signals acquired by the 32 channel EEG. The humanoid robot is equipped with an onboard PC and has 20 degrees of freedom (DOFs). The CCD cam...

Citation: Fischer T, Puigbò J-Y, Camilleri D, Nguyen PDH, Moulin-Frier C, Lallée S, Metta G, Prescott TJ, Demiris Y and Verschure PFMJ (2018) iCub-HRI: A Software Framework for Complex Human–Robot Interaction Scenarios on the iCub Humanoid Robot. Front. Robot. AI 5:22. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2018.00022 iCub-HRI: A Software Framework for Complex Human–Robot Interaction Scenarios on the iCub Humanoid...