Publications by Ravin Luis De Souza

A modular approach to learning manipulation strategies from human demonstration

Aude Billard, Miao Li, Ravin Luis De Souza

Object manipulation is a challenging task for robotics, as the physics involved in object interaction is complex and hard to express analytically. Here we introduce a modular approach for learning a manipulation strategy from human demonstration. Firstly w ...

Springer Verlag2016

A Modular Approach to Learning Manipulation Strategies from Human Demonstration

Aude Billard, Miao Li, Ravin Luis De Souza

Object manipulation is a challenging task for robotics, as the physics involved in object interaction is com- plex and hard to express analytically. Here we introduce a modular approach for learning a manipulation strategy from human demonstration. Firstly ...

Springer Verlag2016

Grasping for the Task : Human Principles for Robot Hands

Ravin Luis De Souza

The significant advances made in the design and construction of anthropomorphic robot hands, endow them with prehensile abilities reaching that of humans. However, using these powerful hands with the same level of expertise that humans display is a big cha ...

EPFL2016

Recognizing the grasp intention from human demonstration

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Ravin Luis De Souza, José Santos-Victor

In human grasping, choices are made on the use of hand-parts even before a grasp is realized. The human associates these choices with end-functionality and is confident that the resulting grasp will be able to meet task requirements. We refer to these choi ...

Elsevier2015

On Computing Task-Oriented Grasps

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Ravin Luis De Souza

This paper addresses the problem of optimal grasping of an object with a multi-fingered robotic hand for accomplishing a given task. The task is first demonstrated by a human operator and its force/torque requirements are captured through the usage of a se ...

Elsevier2015

Towards comprehensive capture of human grasping and manipulation skills

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Ravin Luis De Souza, José Santos-Victor

Grasping plays a central role in our daily life. To interact with objects surrounding them, people use a large diversity of hand configurations in combination with forces ranging from the small ones involved in manipulating a pen for writing, to larger for ...

2014