Recently, the development and deployment of social robots to support children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) has attracted the attention of researchers in different fields. The main aim of this multidisciplinary research field is to teach and improve the social skills and capabilities of the children through interacting and playing with robots however, due to the spontaneous nature of ch...

This report proposes a research topic in the field of human-robot interaction. The research will focus on real-time learning paradigm and its application in social robotics. Gestures, as part of more complex actions, will provide information necessary for a social robot to infer emotional state of a human demonstrator. The research may lead to further investigation of acceptance of humanoid rob...

Recently, the research on humanoid robots has attracted many researchers. The research spans from stability and optimal control, gait generation, human-robot and robot-robot communication. In addition, humanoid robots have been also used to understand better human motion. Among humanoid robot prototypes the most well known is Honda humanoid robot (Hirai et. al., 1998). This robot has the abilit...

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan had run an R&D project on humanoid robotics since 1998 for five years. In the first two years, platforms for humanoid robotics research were developed. In the next three years, researches were carried on for five different applications. We joined a group of the cooperative works by a human and a humanoid robot and took charge of a robot vision sy...

Human motion capture is a promising technique for the generation of humanoid robot motions. To convert human motion into humanoid robot motion, we need to relate the humanoid robot kinematics to the kinematics of a human performer. In this paper we propose an automatic approach for scaling of humanoid robot kinematic parameters to the kinematic parameters of a human performer. The kinematic mod...

In this paper, a new biped robot soccer game platform was proposed. The platform is based on biped humanoid robot, it combined the research of robot control, wireless communication, machine vision, which make the humanoid robot game possible. Based on this platform, one can develop more advanced humanoid robot.

We model Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) scenarios as linear dynamical systems and use Model Predictive Control (MPC) with mixed integer constraints to generate humanaware control policies. We motivate the approach by presenting two scenarios. The first involves an assistive robot that aims to maximize productivity while minimizing the human’s workload, and the second involves a listening humanoi...

Mimicry is an important social skill for every person. A humanoid robot is used to play with autistic children in order to attract their attention and want to improve their concentration. Music therapy plays also an important role in this experiment. Robot plays with autistic children with music. The robot will imitate the notes which the child has played, and then the child has to imitate the ...

Locomotion of a Humanoid robot with lesser number of actuators is a choice of interest, as it leads to energy efficient design. This paper put emphasis on design of a humanoid robot with minimal actuation, minimal control and minimum development cost. It describes, design considerations and methods used for balancing and walking gait generation of a Humanoid Robot with 8 Degrees of Freedom. The...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in designing social robots to interact with people to provide therapy and companionship. Most social robots currently being used are light-weight and much smaller in size compared to people. In this work, we investigate designing interactions for larger and more physically capable robots as they have more potential to assist people physical...