We introduce a framework for brain modelling tasks, following a collaborative coevolutionary approach. A new coevolutionary scheme is also proposed which emphasizes collaborator selection issue. The proposed approach is employed to construct a computational model of brain motor areas, which is tested in driving a simulated robot.

In programming robot manipulators to carry out a wide variety of tasks it would be desirable to create a cad system in which these tasks can be programmed at the task level, leaving the ne-grained detail of path planning and collision detection to the system. This paper describes the theoretical background to such a system, by providing a model in which robot motions are represented using multi...

Short Abstract This paper presents an ontology of robotics, and its use for validation of autonomous mobile robots. The ontology stands on top of a layered architecture, featuring knowledge based systems, simulators and behaviour analysis tools. We expose the comitments made for our representation of the robotic knowledge domain, and then we discuss the options we took for the implementation of...

In human-human interaction, the participants’ multimodal behaviour has impact on the interaction as a whole, and similarly in spoken human-robot interactive situations, the interlocutors’ multimodal signals seem to correlate with the user’s assessment of the interaction. We explored in more detail how some aspects of multimodal behaviour (gazing, facial expressions, body posture) can predict th...

This paper reports on work related to the modelling of Human-Robot Communication on the basis of multimodal and multisensory human behaviour analysis. A primary focus in this framework of analysis is the definition of semantics of human actions in interaction, their capture and their representation in terms of behavioural patterns that, in turn, feed a multimodal human-robot communication syste...

In this demonstration we show how situated multi-party human-robot interaction can be modelled using the open source framework IrisTK. We will demonstrate the capabilities of IrisTK by showing an application where two users are playing a collaborative card sorting game together with the robot head Furhat, where the cards are shown on a touch table between the players. The application is interes...

This paper aims to develop a writing robot by recognizing the speech signal from the user. The robot arm constructed mainly for the disabled people who can’t perform writing on their own. Here, dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is used to recognize the speech signal from the user. The action performed by the robot arm in the environment is done by reducing the redundancy which frequently fac...

A modular reconfigurable robot consists of a collection of individual link and joint components that can be assembled into a number of different robot geometries. Compared to a conventional industrial robot with fixed geometry, such a system can provide flexibility to the user to cope with a wide spectrum of tasks through proper selection and reconfiguration of a large inventory of functional c...

Gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. In this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. In the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...