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Rich periodic motor skills on humanoid robots: Riding the pedal racer

Auke Ijspeert, Massimo Vespignani, Jesse van den Kieboom, Luc Guyot

Just as their discrete counterparts, periodic or rhythmic dynamic motion primitives allow easily modulated and robust motion generation, but for periodic tasks. In this paper we present an approach for modulating periodic dynamic movement primitives based ...

IEEE2014

Skills Learning in Robots by Interaction with Users and Environment

Sylvain Calinon

The fast technological evolution and dissemination of multimodal sensors and compliant actuators bring a new human-centric perspective to robotics. The variety of human-robot interactions that stem from these new capabilities unveil compelling challenges f ...

2014

Transfering skills upon return: matching aspirations in the host countries with the reality back in India

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

This chapter discusses the factors that influence the development aspirations of skilled Indians living in Europe and those who have returned to India. While India is seen as a country that benefits from the positive effects of skilled migration, it lacks ...

Springer2014

Assistive technology for supporting learning numeracy

Calculation depends on the majority of the abilities within the domain of general intelligence (Blair et al., 2005). Most major theories of intelligence include numeracy or quantitative thinking as one aspect of general cognitive skills (Kaufman et al., 20 ...

Psychology Press2014

A Skill Transfer Approach for Continuum Robots - Imitation of Octopus Reaching Motion with the STIFF-FLOP Robot

Sylvain Calinon

The problem of transferring skills to hyper-redundant system requires the design of new motion primitive representations that can cope with multiple sources of noise and redundancy, and that can dynamically handle perturbations in the environment. One way ...

2014

Does emotional intelligence predict student teachers' performance?

Roland John Tormey

There are good theoretical grounds for seeing emotional intelligence (EI) as important in the teachers' skill set. Yet there is a lack of data on whether student teachers' levels of EI are associated with their teaching performance. This question was addre ...

Elsevier2013

Automatic Skill Acquisition in Reinforcement Learning Using Graph Centrality Measures

Martin Hasler, Ali Ajdari Rad, Alireza Khadivi

Mechanisms on automatic discovery of macro actions or skills in reinforcement learning methods are mainly focused on subgoal discovery methods. Among the proposed algorithms, those based on graph centrality measures demonstrate a high performance gain. In ...

2012

Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers; Emotional Intelligence and Pre-Service Teacher Education

Roland John Tormey

Classrooms are emotional places, filled at different times with enjoyment, excitement, anger, hurt and boredom. The teacher's skill in working with emotional information and in regulating their own and their pupils' emotion impacts upon what and how pupils ...

Peter Lang2012

How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?

Roland John Tormey

Although there is evidence that teacher emotional intelligence is important for pupil adjustment and learning and for teachers in managing the emotional demands of their work, little is known about the levels of emotional skill of teachers and beginning te ...

Elsevier2012

myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.

Pascal Fua, Dario Floreano, Roland Siegwart, Felix Stephan Schill, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Samir Bouabdallah

This paper describes the European Commission (EC) Framework 7 funded project myCopter (2011-2014). The project is still at an early stage so the paper starts with a discussion of the current transportation issues faced, for example, by European countries a ...

2011

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