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My primary research interest is how we can fuse autonomy and sociability in the entire spectrum of behavior complexity in real robots. Running through video clips from my past robotic examples, I will list some key issues in fusing autonomy and sociability: tools and control architectures, attention, behavior matching, embodiment, similarity, and imitation, which are illuminated from several viewpoints through different projects.
The video contains the following topics:
1. Learning by Watching ... Observational learning of simple human tasks.
2. Cooperation by Observation ... A robot helping the other by observing
its actions.
3. Purposive and qualitative map learning. ... Defining landmarks based on
behavior states.
4. ESCHeR: An active vision system with forveated wide angle lenses.
5. Interactive learning of oculomotor control... On-line learning of
control laws for a redundant system.
6. Tracking by velocity and disparity cues ... Robust tracking of arbitrary
targets in an unstructured background.
7. Simulation of whole body movement of a humanoid... Yes we are building a
humanoid.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi was born in Chiba, Japan, on August 4, 1962. He received
the B.Eng. degree in applied physics in 1985, M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in
information engineering in 1988 and 1991 respectively, all from the
University of Tokyo. In April 1991, he joined Electrotechnical Laboratory
(ETL), AIST, MITI, Japan. He is currently a senior research scientist and
the laboratory leader of Humanoid Interaction Laboratory, Intelligent
Systems Division, ETL.
He received a Research Incentive Award from Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
in 1990, a Sato Memorial Award for Intelligent Robotics Research in 1992,
IJCAI93 Outstanding Paper Award in 1993, and the RSJ Best Paper Award for
the tenth anniversary paper contest in 1994 and the RSJ Outstanding Paper
Award in 1996.
His research interests cover intelligent robotics and cognitive science,
especially, action understanding, science of imitation, complex adaptive
behavior, agent architecture, multi-robot cooperation, human-machine
interaction, and humanoid robots.
Dr. Kuniyoshi is a member of Robotics Society of Japan, Japan Society for
Artificial
Intelligence, Japan Society for Cognitive Science and Information
Processing Society of Japan.
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