Journal Papers
Pending
Point-to-Point Unconstrained Gestures: Modeling Wrist and Elbow Trajectories
A. Just, B. Petreska, A. Billard, L. Craighero, A. D'Ausilio, A. Oleynik and L. Fadiga
Human Movement Science, (2009). [Detailed Record]
Revisiting callosal apraxia: the right hemisphere can imitate the orientation but not the position of the hand
B. Petreska, A. Billard, J. Hermsdörfer and G. Goldenberg. [Detailed Record]
A Survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions
B.D. Argall and A.G. Billard. [Detailed Record]
2009
Statistical Learning by Imitation of Competing Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Advanced Robotics, 23 (2009) 2059-2076. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Movement Curvature Planning through Force Field Internal Models
B. Petreska and A. Billard
Biological Cybernetics, 100 (2009) 331-350. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2008
Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations
M. Hersch, F. Guenter, S. Calinon and A. Billard
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24 (2008) 1463–1467. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Online learning of the body schema
M. Hersch, E. Sauser and A. Billard
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 5 (2008) 161–181. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Reaching with Multi-Referential Dynamical Systems
M. Hersch and A. Billard
Autonomous Robots, 25 (2008) 71-83. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2007
Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements
F. Guenter, M. Hersch, S. Calinon and A. Billard
RSJ Advanced Robotics, Special Issue on Imitative Robots, 21 (2007) 1521-1544. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Auditory motion affects visual biological motion processing
A. Brooks, R. Van der Zwan, A. Billard, B. Petreska, S. Clarke and O. Blanke
Neuropsychologia, 45 (2007) 523-530. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
What is the Teacher's Role in Robot Programming by Demonstration? - Toward Benchmarks for Improved Learning
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Interaction Studies. Special Issue on Psychological Benchmarks in Human-Robot Interaction, 8 (2007). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
On Learning, Representing and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot
S. Calinon, F. Guenter and A. Billard
IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics, Part B. Special issue on robot learning by observation, demonstration and imitation, 37 (2007) 286-298. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2006
Dynamic Updating of Distributed Neural Representations using Forward Models
E. Sauser and A. Billard
Biological Cybernetics, 95(6) (2006) 567-588. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Building Robota, a Mini-Humanoid Robot for the Rehabilitation of Children with Autism
A. Billard, B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn and J. Nadel
the RESNA Assistive Technology Journal, 19 (2006). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Parallel and Distributed Neural Models of the Ideomotor Principle: An Investigation of Imitative Cortical Pathways
E. Sauser and A. Billard
Neural Networks, 19(3) (2006) 285-298. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Discriminative and Adaptive Imitation in Uni-Manual and Bi-Manual Tasks
A. Billard, S. Calinon and F. Guenter
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54 (2006) 370-384. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2005
Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: Can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?
B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn, R. te Boekhorst and A. Billard
Access in the Information Society (UAIS), Springer- Verlag., 4 (2005) 105-120. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Three Dimensional Frames of References Transformations using Recurrent Populations of Neurons
E. Sauser and A. Billard
Neurocomputing, 64 (2005) 5-24. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2004
Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies
A. Billard, Y. Epars, S. Calinon, G. Cheng and S. Schaal
robotics and autonomous systems, Special Issue: Robot Learning from Demonstration, 47 (2004) 69-77. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2003
Computational Approaches to Motor Learning by Imitation
S. Schaal, A.J. Ijspeert and A. Billard
philosophical transactions: biological sciences, 358 (2003) 537-547. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Robota: Clever Toy and Educational Tool
A. Billard
Robotics & Autonomous Systems, 42 (2003) 259-269. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2002
Imitation of coordinated arm movements
A. Billard, S. Schaal and J. Gordon
Experimental Brain Research, (2002). [Detailed Record]
2001
How monkeys Morphology constrain natural prehension kinematics. Unconstrained conditions and simulation
M. Christel and A. Billard
behavioural brain research, 131 (2001) 169-184. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning human arm movements by imitation: Evaluation of a biologically-inspired connectionist architecture
A. Billard and M. Mataric
Robotics & Autonomous Systems, 941 (2001) 1-16. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Collaboration through the Exploitation of Local Interactions in Autonomous Collective Robotics: The Stick Pulling Experiment
A.J. Ijspeert, A. Martinoli, A. Billard and L.M. Gambardella
Autonomous Robots, 11 (2001) 149-171. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2000
Synthetic brain imaging: grasping, mirror neurons and imitation
M. Arbib, A. Billard, M. Iacobonni and E. Oztop
Neural Networks, 13 (2000) 975-997. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning motor skills by imitation: a biologically inspired robotic model
A. Billard
Cybernetics & Systems, 32 (2000) 155-193. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Experiments in social robotics: grounding and use of communication in autonomous agents
A. Billard and K. Dautenhahn
Adaptive Behavior, 7 (2000). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
1999
DRAMA, a connectionist architecture for on-line learning and control of autonomous robots: Experiments on learning of a synthetic proto-language with a doll robot
A. Billard
industrial robot, 26 (1999) 59-66. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
DRAMA, a connectionist architecture for control and learning in autonomous robots
A. Billard and G. Hayes
adaptive behavior, 7 (1999) 35-64. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
A multi-robot system for adaptive exploration of a fast changing environment: probabilistic modelling and experimental study
A. Billard, A.J. Ijspeert and A. Martinoli
Connection Science, 11 (1999) 35-377. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
1998
Grounding communication in autonomous robots: an experimental study
A. Billard and K. Dautenhahn
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, special Issue on "Scientific methods in mobile robotics", 24 (1998) 71-79. [Detailed Record]
Conference Papers
Pending
Policy Adaptation through Tactile Correction
B.D. Argall, E.L. Sauser and A.G. Billard. [Detailed Record]
2010
Evaluation of a probabilistic approach to learn and reproduce gestures by imitation
S. Calinon, E.L. Sauser, A.G. Billard and D.G. Caldwell
Proc. of the IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), (2010). [Detailed Record]
Learning Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models
S.M. Khansari-Zadeh and A. Billard
In Proceeding of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), (2010). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2009
Learning Nonlinear Multi-Variate Motion Dynamics for Real- Time Position and Orientation Control of Robotic Manipulators
E. Gribovskaya and A. Billard
Proceedings of 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2009). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Tactile Correction and Multiple Training Data Sources for Robot Motion Control
B.D. Argall, E.L. Sauser and A.G. Billard
NIPS 2009 Workshop on Learning from Multiple Sources with Application to Robotics, (2009). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Teaching Physical Collaborative Tasks: Object-Lifting Case Study with a Humanoid
P. Evrard, E. Gribovskaya, S. Calinon, A. Billard and A. Kheddar
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2009). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Handling of multiple constraints and motion alternatives in a robot programming by demonstration framework
S. Calinon, F. D'halluin, D.G. Caldwell and A. Billard
Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2009) 582 - 588. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Keyword Detection for Spontaneous Speech
W. Li, A. Billard and H. Bourlard
The 2nd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2009), (2009). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Teaching a Humanoid: A User Study on Learning by Demonstration with HOAP-3
A. Weiss, J. Igelsboeck, S. Calinon, A. Billard and M. Tscheligi
Proc. of the IEEE Intl Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), (2009) 147-152. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning collaborative manipulation tasks by demonstration using a haptic interface
S. Calinon, P. Evrard, E. Gribovskaya, A. Billard and A. Kheddar
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), (2009). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2008
A Probabilistic Programming by Demonstration Framework Handling Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), (2008). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
A framework integrating statistical and social cues to teach a humanoid robot new skills
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots, (2008). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Calibration-Free Eye Gaze Direction Detection with Gaussian Processes
B. Noris, K. Benmachiche and A. Billard
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, (2008). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Iterative rigid body transformation estimation for visual 3-D object tracking
M. Hersch, T. Reichert and A. Billard
in Proceedings of the Third Interantional Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 08)), (2008) 674-677. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Combining Dynamical Systems Control and Programming by Demonstration for Teaching Discrete Bimanual Coordination Tasks to a Humanoid Robot
E. Gribovskaya and A. Billard
Proceedings of 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'08, Amsterdam, March 12-15 2008, (2008). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2007
A Model of Acquisition of Discrete Bimanual Coordination Skills for a Humanoid Robot
E. Gribovskaya and A. Billard
Proceedings of the International Conference in Epigenetic Robotics, (2007). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Analysis of Head Mounted Wireless Camera Videos for Early Diagnosis of Autism
B. Noris, K. Benmachiche, J. Meynet, J.-P. Thiran and A. Billard
Computer Recognition Systems, 2 (2007) 663-670. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
WearCam: A head mounted wireless camera for monitoring gaze attention and for the diagnosis of developmental disorders in young children
L. Piccardi, B. Noris, O. Barbey, A. Billard, G. Schiavone, F. Keller and C. von Hofsten
In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Simposium on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, (2007). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Using Reinforcement Learning to Adapt an Imitation Task
F. Guenter and A. Billard
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (2007). [Detailed Record]
Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration (Ro- Man'2007 best paper award)
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), (2007) 702-707. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
The Dof-Box Project: An Educational Kit for Configurable Robots
D. Daidie, O. Barbey, A. Guignard, D. Roussy, F. Guenter, A.J. Ijspeert and A. Billard
In Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, (2007). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Interferences in the Transformation of Reference Frames during a Posture Imitation Task
E. Sauser and A. Billard
In Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 07, Porto, Portugal, (2007). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), (2007) 255-262. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2006
An attention framework for learning by interaction in developmental embodied agents
I. Goga and A. Billard
Accepted at the Third Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2006, 4-6 Sept 2006, Guildford, UK, (2006). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Attention mechanisms for the imitation of goal-directed action in developmental robots
I. Goga and A. Billard
Short paper accepted at the 6th International Conference in Epigenetic Robotics, 20-22 Sept 2006, Paris, France, (2006). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Biologically Inspired Multimodal Integration: Interferences in a Human-Robot Interaction Game
E. Sauser and A. Billard
In Proceedings of IROS'2006, Beijing, China, (2006). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
A Biologically-Inspired Model of Reaching Movements
M. Hersch and A. Billard
In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Pisa, (2006). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and Reproduce Social Cues
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), (2006) 346-351. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
A Neurocomputational Model of an Imitation Deficit following Brain Lesion
B. Petreska and A. Billard
In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Athens, Greece. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4131 (2006) pp. 770-779. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
A Model for Imitating Human Reaching Movements
M. Hersch and A. Billard
Poster abstract in Proceedings of the Human Robot Interaction Conference 2006, Salt Lake City, (2006) 341 - 342. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks
M. Hersch, F. Guenter, S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), (2006) 444-449. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
On Learning the Statistical Representation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts
S. Calinon, F. Guenter and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), (2006) 2978--2983. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2005
A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits
S. Calinon, J. Epiney and A. Billard
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2005). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Recognition and Reproduction of Gestures using a Probabilistic Framework combining PCA, ICA and HMM
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), (2005) 105--112. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Design of a Biomimetic Upper Body for the Humanoid Robot Robota
F. Guenter, L. Roos, A. Guignard and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2005). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
S. Calinon, F. Guenter and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), (2005) 299--304. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Challenges in designing the body and the mind of an interactive robot
A. Billard
Proceeding of the AISB05 convention, Symposium on Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges, 12-15 April, 2005,UH., (2005). [Detailed Record]
Extended Hopfield Network for Sequence Learning: Application to Gesture Recognition
A. Maurer, M. Hersch and A. Billard
Proceedings of ICANN'05, (2005). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
View Sensitive Cells as a Neural Basis for the Representation of Others in a Self-Centered Frame of Reference
E. Sauser and A. Billard
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, (2005) 119-127. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Neural Model of the Transformation from Allo-centric to Ego- centric Representation of Motions
E. Sauser and A. Billard
Proceedings of Fourteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2005, (2005). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2004
Three dimensional frames of reference transformations using gain modulated populations of neurons
E. Sauser and A. Billard
Proceedings of 12th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, (2004) 543-548. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition Model for a Humanoid Robot
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ international Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 3 (2004) 2769-2774. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Development of a miniature articulated arm and pair of eyes for the humanoid robot Robota
F. Guenter, A. Guignard, L. Piccardi, M. Calzascia and A. Billard
Proceeding of the IEEE/APS conference on Mechatronics and Robotics, (2004). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Gesture Recognition and Reproduction for a Humanoid Robot using Hidden Markov Models
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms, (2004). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Development of a Miniature Pair of Eyes With Camera for the Humanoid Robot Robota
D. Pongas, F. Guenter, A. Guignard and A. Billard
Proceedings of IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots , (2004). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2003
PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots
S. Calinon and A. Billard
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), (2003). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Effect of repeated exposure of a humanoid robot on children with autism - Can we encourage basic social interaction skills
B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn, R. te Boekhorst and A. Billard
Proceedings of CWUATT, 2003, (2003). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Discovering Imitation Strategies through Categorization of Multi-Dimensional Data
A. Billard, Y. Epars, S. Schaal and G. Cheng
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 3 (2003) 2398-2403. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2002
Games children with autism can play with robota, a humanoid robotics doll
K. Dautenhahn and A. Billard
Proceedings of the 1st Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, (2002). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Computational elements of robot learning by imitation
A. Billard and S. Schaal
Proceedings of the 980th American Mathematical Society, (2002). [Detailed Record]
2001
Robust learning of arm trajectories through human demonstration
A. Billard and S. Schaal
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent and Robotics Systems, 2 (2001) 734-739. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
A neural model of morpheme representation
M. Klein and A. Billard
Proceedings of the 8th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, (2001). [Detailed Record]
Mirror Neurons and the neural basis for learning by imitation: A computational model
A. Billard and M. Arbib
Proceedings of the Conference on Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, (2001). [Detailed Record]
2000
Learning human arm movements by imitation: Evaluation of a biologically-inspired connectionist architecture
A. Billard and M. Mataric
Proceedings of the First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, (2000). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Biologically inspired neural controllers for motor control in a quadruped robot
A. Billard and A.J. Ijspeert
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 6 (2000) 6637. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning motor skills by imitation: a biologically inspired robotic model
A. Billard and M. Mataric
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, (2000). [Detailed Record]
Learning motor skills by imitation
A. Billard and M. Mataric
Proceedings of the 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, (2000). [Detailed Record]
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota
A. Billard
Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment, (2000). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Betty: "Robot, play with me!''. Robot: "O.K. How do we play?''. Betty: "You watch me and do like I do. Look!"
A. Billard and M. Mataric
Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment, (2000). [Detailed Record]
A biologically inspired robotic model for learning by imitation
A. Billard and M. Mataric
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, (2000) 373-380. [Detailed Record]
1999
Adaptive exploration of a dynamic environment by a group of communicating robots
A. Billard, A.J. Ijspeert and A. Martinoli
Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, (1999). [Detailed Record]
Imitation skills as a means to enhance learning of a synthetic proto-language in an autonomous robot
A. Billard
Proceedings of the AISB Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, (1999). [Detailed Record]
Bringing up Robots or - The Psychology of Socially Intelligent Robots: From Theory to Implementation
K. Dautenhahn and A. Billard
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, (1999) 366-367. [Detailed Record]
Studying Robot Social Cognition Within a Developmental Psychology Framework
K. Dautenhahn and A. Billard
Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, (1999) 187-194. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
1998
Experiments on human-robot communication with Robota, an imitative learning and communicating doll robot
A. Billard, K. Dautenhahn and G. Hayes
Proceedings of the Socially Situated Intelligence Workshop, Zurich (CH), August, as part of the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (1998). [Detailed Record]
Evolutionary robotics - a children's game
H.H. Lund, O. Miglino, L. Pagliarini, A. Billard and A.J. Ijspeert
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, (1998) 154-158. [Detailed Record]
1997
Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots
A. Billard and G. Hayes
Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Learning Robots, (1997) 79-94. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning to Communicate through Imitation in Autonomous robots
A. Billard and G. Hayes
Wulfram Gerstner et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Springer-Verlag, (1997) 763-768. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Grounding communication in situated, social robots
A. Billard and K. Dautenhahn
Proceedings of the Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots Conference, Manchester, Technical Report Series, Department of Computer Science, Manchester University, (1997). [Detailed Record]
'Robot's first steps, Robot's first words ...'
A. Billard and G. Hayes
Proceedings of the Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition, (1997). [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Ph.D. Theses
2009
Modeling the neural correlates of imitation from a neuropsychological perspective
B. Petreska
Ph.D. Thesis, 2009. [Detailed Record]
Using reinforcement learning for optimizing the reproduction of tasks in robot programming by demonstration
F. Günter
Ph.D. Thesis, 2009. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Adaptive sensorimotor peripersonal space representation and motor learning for a humanoid robot
M. Hersch
Ph.D. Thesis, 2009. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2007
Neural modeling of the cortical processes underlying imitative behaviors
E. Sauser
Ph.D. Thesis, 2007. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Continuous extraction of task constraints in a robot programming by demonstration framework
S. Calinon
Ph.D. Thesis, 2007. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
1998
DRAMA, a connectionist model for robot learning: Experiments on grounding communication through imitation in autonomous robots
A. Billard
Ph.D. Thesis, 1998. [Detailed Record]
Books
2006
Special Issue on Robot Learning by Observation, Demonstration and Imitation
Y. Demiris and A. Billard
IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
The Social Mechanisms of Robot Programming By Demonstration
A. Billard and R. Dillmann
: Elsevier, 2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Special Issue on the Brain Mechanisms of Imitation Learning
A. Billard and S. Schaal
: Neural Networks, 2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices
A.J. Ijspeert, J. Buchli, A. Selverston, M. Rabinovich, M. Hasler, W. Gerstner, A. Billard, H. Markram and D. Floreano
Lausanne : EPFL, 2006. [Detailed Record]
2004
EDITORIAL: Robot Programming By Demonstration
A. Billard and R. Siegwart
2004. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Proceedings - From Animals to Animats: The Eighth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
S. Schaal, A.J. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. Hallam and J.A. Meyer
2004. [Detailed Record]
Book Chapters
2008
Survey: Robot Programming by Demonstration
A. Billard, S. Calinon, R. Dillmann and S. Schaal
in Handbook of Robotics, : MIT Press, 2008. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2007
Apraxia: a review
B. Petreska, M. Adriani, O. Blanke and A. Billard
in Action to Cognition. Progress in Brain Research, Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2007. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot
S. Calinon and A. Billard
in Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions, Cambridge University Press, 2007. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2006
Development of goal-directed imitation, object manipulation and language in humans and robots
I. Goga and A. Billard
in In M. A. Arbib (ed.), Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System, : Cambridge University Press., 2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2004
Effects of repeated exposure of a humanoid robot on children with autism
B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn, R. te Boekhorst, A. Billard, S. Keates, J. Clarkson, P. Langdon and P. Robinson
in Designing a More Inclusive World, : Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2002
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota
A. Billard
in Socially Intelligent Agents, Kluwer publisher, 2002. [Detailed Record]
Imitation: a means to enhance learning of a synthetic proto-language in an autonomous robot
A. Billard
in Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, MIT Press, 2002. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Imitation
A. Billard and M. Arbib
in Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, : MIT Press, 2002. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Mirror neurons, and the neural basis for learning by imitation: Computational modeling
A. Billard, M. Arbib, M. Stamenov and V. Gallese
in Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, John Benjamins publisher, 2002. [Detailed Record]
1998
Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots
A. Billard and G. Hayes
in Learning Robots: A Multi-Perspective Exploration, Springer-Verlag, 1998. [Detailed Record]
Technical Reports
2004
Imitation, Language and other Natural Means of Interactions we build for our Machines: Do we really want machines to resemble us that much?
A. Billard
Technical Report, 2004. [Detailed Record]
1996
Grounding communication in situated, social robots
A. Billard and K. Dautenhahn
Technical Report, 1996. [Detailed Record]
'Allo Kazam, do you follow me?' Learning to speak through imitation for social robots
A. Billard
Technical Report, 1996. [Detailed Record]
Posters
2010
A learning by imitation model handling multiple constraints and motion alternatives
S. Calinon, E.L. Sauser, F. D'halluin, A.G. Billard and D.G. Caldwell
Presented at: International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), Zuerich, Switzerland, January 27-28. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
2009
Learning and Control of UAV maneuvers Based on Demonstrations
S.M. Khansari Zadeh and A. Billard
Presented at: Robotics Science and Systems, Seattle, June 28 – July 1, 2009. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Combining Task-Level and Trajectory-Level Learning for Teaching Robots Bimanual Coordinated Tasks
E. Gribovskaya and A. Billard
Presented at: Robotics Science and Systems, Seattle, . [Detailed Record]
What apraxia tells us about the brain hemispheres’ contributions to human imitation
B. Petreska, A. Billard, J. Hermsdörfer and G. Goldenberg
Presented at: Society for Neuroscience Meeting (SfN 2009), Chicago, October 17-21. [Detailed Record]
2008
Human Motion Prediction in a Human-Robot Joint Task
E. Gribovskaya and A. Billard
Presented at: IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning, , . [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Neurocomputational modeling of imitation deficits
B. Petreska and A. Billard
Presented at: Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 2008), BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P76, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 19 - 24, 2008. [Detailed Record]
Neurocomputational Modeling of Imitation through Apraxia Errors
B. Petreska and A. Billard
Presented at: Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2008), colocated with NIPS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 8, 2008. [Detailed Record]
Modeling Unconstrained Self-Oriented Movements
B. Petreska and A.G. Billard
Presented at: Neural Control of Movement Society Meeting (NCM 2008), Naples, Florida, April 29 - May 4. [Detailed Record]
2006
A Neurocomputational Model of Impaired Imitation
B. Petreska and A. Billard
Presented at: first Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2006), San Diego (USA), 4 October 2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
Gait Analysis of Autistic Children with Echo State Networks
B. Noris, M. Nobile, L. Piccini, M. Molteni, F. Keller and A. Billard
Presented at: NIPS'06, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, December 4, 2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
1997
The social aspect of communication: a case study in the use and usefulness of communication for embodied agents
A. Billard and K. Dautenhahn. [Detailed Record]
Working Papers
2006
Neural Modeling of Imitation Deficits
B. Petreska, M. Adriani, O. Blanke and A. Billard
2006. [Detailed Record] [PDF Format]
