Motor resonance mechanisms are known to affect humans' ability to interact with others, yielding the kind of "mutual understanding" that is the basis of social interaction. However, it remains unclear how the partner's action features combine or compete to promote or prevent motor resonance during interaction. To clarify this point, the present study tested whether and how the nature of the vis...

Abstract How does the presence of a robot affect pedestrians and crowd dynamics, this influence vary across type? In paper, we took first step towards answering question by performing crowd-robot gate-crossing experiment. The study involved 28 participants two distinct representatives: A smart wheelchair Pepper humanoid robot. Collected data includes: video recordings; participant trajectories;...

Mirror neurons are premotor neurons that are considered to play a role in goal-directed actions, action understanding and even social cognition. As one of the promising research areas in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and cognitive physiology, understanding mirror neurons in a social cognition context, whether with neural or computational models, is still an open issue [5]. In this paper, w...

Using pre-recorded human motion and trajectory tracking, we can control the motion of a humanoid robot for free-space, upper body gestures. However, the number of degrees of freedom, range of joint motion, and achievable joint velocities of today’s humanoid robots are far more limited than those of the average human subject. In this paper, we explore a set of techniques for limiting human motio...

I majored in robotics and humanoid robots are the dream of every researcher in robotics. When I first saw the Honda Asimo, I really wanted to create my own humanoid robot. This is a very personal motivation to start humanoid robotic research. Secondly, humanoid robots are the ultimate form of service robots. While today most robots drive on wheels, eventually, two-legged locomotion is the best ...

This manuscript present my research activities on real-time vision-based behaviors for complex robots such as humanoids. The underlying main scientific question structuring this work is the following: “What are the decisional processes which make possible for a humanoid robot to generate motion in real-time based upon visual information ?” In soccer humans can decide to kick a ball while runnin...