RobotCub, list of published papers

Arbib, M., Metta, G., Van der Smagt, P. Handbook of Robotics Chapter 62: Neurorobotics: From Vision to Action, 2008, LX,1611 p. 1375 ISBN: 978-3-540-23957-4. [PDF]

Alaerts K, Senot P, Swinnen S, Craighero L, Wenderoth N, Fadiga L. Force requirements of observed object lifting are encoded by the observer’s motor system: A TMS-study. European Journal of Neuroscience (submitted). [PDF]

Beira, R., Lopes, M., Praça, M., Santos-Victor, J., Bernardino, A., Metta, G., Becchi, F., Saltarén, R. 2006. Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA, Orlando, May. [PDF]

Berthouze, L., and Metta, G. 2005. Epigenetic robotics: modelling cognitive development in robotic systems. In Cognitive Systems Research. Volume 6 Issue 3. September. [PDF]

Berton, F., Sandini, G., Metta, G. 2005. Anthropomorphic Visual Sensors. In the Encyclopedia of Sensors. Ed. C.A. Grimes, E.C. Dickey, M.V. Pishko, American Scientific Publishers. Volume X, pp 1-16. [PDF]

Bezdicek, M. and Caldwell, D. G. 2006. Portable Absolute Position Tracking System For Human Hand Fingertips, Virtual Concept 2006, Cancun , Mexico, Nov. [PDF]

Billard, A., Calinon, S., Dillmann, R., and Schaal, S. Robot Programming by Demonstration, Handbook of Robotics, B. Siciliano and O. Khatib (Eds.), Chapter 59, 2008, LX,1611 ISBN: 978-3-540-23957-4. [PDF]

Blow, M., Dautenhahn, K., Appleby, A., Nehaniv, C. L., and Lee, D. 2006. Perception of robot smiles and dimensions for human-robot interaction design, In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006), pages 469-474, Hatfield, UK, 6-8 Sept. [PDF]

Blow, M., Dautenhahn, K., Appleby, A., Nehaniv, C. L., and Lee, D. 2006. The Art of Designing Robot Faces – Dimensions for Human-Robot Interaction. In ACM Proceedings of 1st Annual Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), pages 331-332, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2-3 March. [PDF]

Broz, F., Kose-Bagci, H., Nehaniv, C.L., Dautenhahn, K., Learning behavior for a social interaction game with a childlike humanoid robot, Social Learning in Interactive Scenarios Workshop, Humanoids 2009, Paris, France, 7 December, 2009. [PDF]

Burfoot, D., Lungarella, M. And Kuniyoshi, Y. (2008). Toward a theory of embodied statistical learning. In: M. Asada et al. (eds.) From Animals to Animats 10, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5040, pp. 270-279. [PDF]

Cannata, G., Maggiali, M., Metta, G. and Sandini, G., An Embedded Artificial Skin for Humanoid Robots, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems Seoul, Korea, pp. 434-438, August 20 - 22, 2008.[PDF]

Caldwell, D.G., Tsagarakis, N.G., Kousidou, S., Costa, N. and Sarakoglou, I., "Soft" Exoskeletons For Upper And Lower Body Rehabilitation - Design, Control And Testing, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2007. [PDF]

Caselli, L., Oliynyk, A., Gesierich, B., Craighero, L., and Fadiga, L., Visual feedback from the own acting hand modulates the activity of grasping neurons in monkey premotor area F5. Journal of Neurophysiology (submitted). [PDF]

Caselli, L., Oliynyk, A., Gesierich, B., Craighero, L. and Fadiga, L. Visual Feedback from the Own Acting Hand Modulates the Activity of Grasping Neurons in Monkey Premotor Area F5, Primate Neurobiology,1st Annual Meeting, Tubingen, February 2008. [PDF]

Castellini, C., Orabona, F., Metta, G., and Sandini, G. "Internal models of reaching and grasping", In Advanced Robotics, special issue on Imitative Robots, Vol. 21(15), 2007. [PDF]

Censolo R, Craighero R, Ponti G, Rizzo L, Fadiga L. Prosocial attitude modulates muscle activity in a simple coordination game. Social Neuroscience (submitted). [PDF]

Clerget E, Winderickx A, Fadiga L, Olivier E. Role of Broca's area in encoding sequential human actions: a virtual lesion study. Neuroreport. 2009 Oct 28;20(16):1496-9. [PDF]

Chua, P. Y., Bezdicek, M., Davis, S., Gray, J. O., and Caldwell, D. G. 2006. "Tele-Operated High Speed Anthropomorphic Dextrous Hands with Object Shape and Texture Identification", IROS 2006, Beijing China Oct. pp. 4018-23. [PDF]

Costa, N. and Brown, M. and Hutchins, S. and Caldwell, D. G. 2005. “Design of Human-Friendly Powered Lower Limb Rehabilitation Orthosis”, TDU COE-UK EPSRC Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM), pp. 69-75, Tokyo , Japan, July. [PDF]

Costa, N. R. S. and Caldwell, D. G. 2006. "Control of a Biomimetic "Soft-actuated" Lower Body 10 DOF Exoskeleton", Syroco, Bologna, Italy, Sept. [PDF]

Costa, N., Bezdicek,M., Brown, M., Hutchins, S., Gray, J. O., Caldwell, D. G., and Hutchins. 2006. “Joint Motion Control of a Powered Lower Limb Orthosis for Rehabilitation”, International Journal of Automation and Computing , Vol 3, No 3, 271-281. [PDF]

Costa, N. and Caldwell, D. G. 2006. “Control of a Biomimetic “Soft-actuated” 10 DOF Lower Body Exoskeleton”, IEEE BioRob 2006, Pisa, Italy, Feb., 495- 501. [PDF]

Courtney, P., Michel, O., Cangelosi, A., Tikhanoff, V., Metta, G., Natale, L., Nori, F., Kernbach, S. Cognitive Systems Platforms using Open Source. Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems. Ed.Hardcover. pp.139-160 (2009) [PDF]

Craighero L., Fadiga L., Torricelli A., Contini D., Pifferi A., Spinelli L. and Cubeddu R. 2006. “Mapping cerebral hemodynamics of the human motor cortex by multi-channel time-resolved near-infrared spectroscopy”. 12th Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (Florence, Italy, June 11-15). [PDF]

Craighero, L., Metta, G., Sandini, G., and Fadiga, L. "The Mirror-Neurons System: data and models", From Action to Cognition. Progress in Brain Research. Elsevier, Elsevier, 2007. [PDF]

Craighero L., Role of the motor system in the orienting of attention, ESF EMBO Symposium “Three dimensional sensory and motor space: Perceptual consequences of motor action”, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, October 2007. [PDF]

Craighero L., Bonetti F., Massarenti L., Canto R., Fabbri Destro M., Fadiga L. Temporal prediction of touch instant during human and robot grasping observation. Brain Research Bulletin, 75(6), 770–774, 2008. [PDF]

Craighero L., Motor and cognitive functions of the ventral premotor cortex, XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 2008. [PDF]

Craighero L., Bonetti F., Massarenti L., Canto R., Fabbri Destro M., Fadiga L., Temporal prediction of touch instant during grasping observation, submitted for publication.

D'Ausilio A, Pulvermüller F, Salmas P, Bufalari I, Begliomini C, Fadiga L. The motor somatotopy of speech perception. Curr Biol. 2009 Mar 10;19(5):381-5. Epub 2009 Feb 12. [PDF]

D’Ausilio A, Craighero L, Fadiga L. The contribution of the frontal lobe to the perception of speech. Journal of Neurolinguistics (submitted). [PDF]

Dahiya, R. S., Valle, M., Metta, G., Lorenzelli, L., "Tactile sensing arrays for humanoid robot", RSS 2007 Manipulation Workshop: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World, Atlanta, USA, July 2007. [PDF]

Dahiya, R. S., Valle, M., Metta, G., Lorenzelli, L., Collini, C. "Tactile sensing arrays for humanoid robot", IEEE- PRIME’07, The 3rd Conference on PhD research on Microelectronics and Electronics, Bordeaux, France, pp. 210-204, July 2007. (Gold Leaf Best paper award). [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., and Valle, M., and Metta, G., and Lorenzelli, L. "Modeling of Lossy Piezoelectric Polymers in SPICE", MRS Fall Meeting, Nov 2007, Boston, USA. [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., Valle, M., Metta, G., and Lorenzelli, L. "POSFET Tactile sensor arrays", Accepted for publication in Proc. IEEE- ICECS’07, The 14th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Marrakech, Morocco, 11-14 Dec 2007. [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., Valle, M., Metta, G., System Approach: A paradigm for Robotic Tactile Sensing, in Proceedings of IEEE-AMC08, The 10th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, Trento, Italy, Vol. 1, pp 110-115, March 2008. [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S, Metta, G., Valle, M., Development of Fingertip Tactile Sensing Chips for Humanoid Robots, in IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, Malaga, Spain, April 2009 (submitted).

Dahiya, R.S., Gori, M., Metta, G., Sandini, G. Better Manipulation with Human Inspired Tactile Sensing. RSS 2009 workshop on Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation. RSS pp.1-2 (2009) [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., Metta, G., Valle, M. Development of Fingertip Tactile Sensing Chips for Humanoid Robots. 5th IEEE-IES International Conference on Mechatronics, (ICM 2009). IEEE pp.1-6 (2009) [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., Valle, M., Metta, G. Touch Sensing by Piezoelectric Polymer Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (POSFET) Devices. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEEE-IEDST). IEEE pp.1-5 (2009) [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., Valle, M., Metta, G., Lorenzelli, L., Adami, A. Design and Fabrication of POSFET Devices for Tactile Sensing. in Proceedings of TRANSDUCERS 2009, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. IEEE pp.1881-1884 (2009) [PDF]

Dahiya, R.S., Metta, G., Valle, M., Sandini, G. Tactile Sensing: From Humans to Humanoids. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. vol.26 (1) issue: 1 pp.1-20 (2010) [PDF]

Dankers, A., Barnes, N., Bischof, W.F. and Zelinsky, A., Humanoid Vision Resembles Primate Archetype, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 2008. [PDF]

Dankers, A., Barnes, N., Bischof, W.F. and Zelinsky, Humanoid Vision Resembles Primate Archetype, ISER2008, 2008. [PDF]

Dautenhahn, K. (2007). Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human - robot interaction, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362(1480), pp. 679-704. [PDF]

Dautenhahn, K., Nehaniv, C.L., Walters, M.L., Robins, B., Kose-Bagci, H., Mirza, N.A., Blow, M., KASPAR – A Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot for Human-Robot Interaction Research. Special journal issue on "Humanoid Robots" for Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, published by Taylor and Francis. 2009. In press. [PDF]

Davis, S. and Caldwell D.G. 2006, "Pneumatic Muscle Actuators for Humanoid Applications - Sensor and Valve Integration", IEEE 6th Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 06, pp.450-55 , Genoa, Italy, Dec. [PDF]

Davis, S. and Caldwell, D. G. 2006. “Braid Effects on Contractile Range and Friction Modelling in pneumatic Muscle Actuators”, Int. J. Robotics Research, April, pp.359-69. [PDF]

Davis, S., and Artrit, P., Gray, J. O., and Caldwell, D. G. 2006, “Biomimetic Design for Bipedal/Quadrupedal Motion in a Robotic Primate”, International Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems. [PDF]

S. Davis, N.G. Tsagarakis and Darwin G. Caldwell. The Initial Design and Manufacturing Process of a Low Cost Hand for the Robot iCub. IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp40-45. [PDF]

Degallier, S., Santos, C., Righetti, L., and Ijspeert, A. J. 2006. Movement generation using dynamical systems: a drumming humanoid robot. In Proc. IEEE International conference on Humanoid Robots pp..512-517, Genova, Italy, December, 2006. [PDF]

Degallier, S., Righetti, L., and Ijspeert, A. J., "Hand placement during quadruped locomotion in a humanoid robot: A dynamical system approach", IROS 2007, San Diego, USA, October. [PDF]

Degallier, S., Righetti, L., Natale, L., Nori, N., Metta, G and Ijspeert, A. A modular, bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub, IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2008, October 19-22, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. [PDF]

Degallier, S. and Ijspeert, A.J., Modeling Discrete and Rhythmic Movement through Motor Primitives: A Review. 2009. Submitted to Biological Cybernetics. [PDF]

de Lussanet, M.H., Fadiga, L., Michels, L., Seitz, R.J., Kleiser R., Lappe M., Interaction of visual hemifield and body view in biological motion perception. European Journal of Neuroscience 27(2):514-22, 2008.

De Michieli, L., Nori, F., Pini Prato, A., Sandini, G., Study on Humanoid Robot Systems: an Energy Approach, Proceedings Humanoids 2008, Daejeon, Korea (accepted for publication), 2008. [PDF]

De Michieli, L., Nori, F., Pini Prato, A., Sandini, G., Energy Efficiency in Humanoid Robots, A preliminary study on a humanoid torso, proc. ICM2009: IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, Malaga, Spain, submitted. [PDF]

Durán, B., Metta, G., Sandini, G., Towards a chaotic smooth pursuit, International Conference on Humanoid Robots, IEEE-RAS, 29 Nov. - 1 Dic., Pittsburg, PA, 2007. [PDF]

Durán, B., Metta, G., Sandini, G., Smooth pursuit using coupled chaotic fields, European Conference on Complex Systems. 1-5 October, 2007, Dresden, Germany, 2007. [PDF]

Duran, B., Sandini, G., Metta, G., Emergence of Smooth Pursuit using Chaos, in the First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. Boston, MA, USA, July 9-11, 2007. [PDF]

Durán, B., Sandini, G., Metta, G., Towards a chaotic cognitive architecture, CogSys Doctoral Consortium. 28 June, 2008. (To be published). Munich, Germany, 2008. [PDF]

Durán, B., Kuniyoshi, Y., Sandini, G., Eyes-neck coordination using chaos, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol. 44, pp. 83 – 92 2008. [PDF]

Fadiga, L. Craighero, L., Lungu, O, and Rustichini, A., Eye-to-eye communication, Paper presented at the 2005 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, 2005. [PDF]

Fadiga L, Craighero L, D'Ausilio A. Broca's area in language, action, and music. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jul;1169:448-58. [PDF]

Fadiga L, Craighero L, and Olivier E., Human motor cortex excitability during the perception of others' action. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 15:213-8, 2005. [PDF]

Fadiga L. and Craighero L, Hand actions and speech representation in Broca’s area. Cortex, 42:486-90, 2006. [PDF]

Fadiga L., Craighero L., Fabbri-Destro M., Finos L., Cotillon-Williams N., Smith A.T., Castiello U., Language in shadow. Social Neuroscience, 1, 77-89, 2006. [PDF]

Fadiga L., Craighero L., and Roy A.C, Broca’s area: A speech area? In Y. Grodzinsky & K. Amunts (Eds.), Broca’s region. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [PDF]

Fadiga L., Craighero L., Cues on the origin of language. From electrophysiological data on mirror neurons and motor representations In S. Bråten (Ed.), On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007. [PDF]

Fadiga L., Roy A.C., Fazio P., Craighero L., From hand actions to speech: evidence and speculations. In P. Haggard, Y. Rossetti, M. Kawato (Eds.) Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition, Attention and Performance XXII. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2007. [PDF]

Fadiga L., Functional magnetic resonance imaging: Measuring versus estimating. Neuroimage, 37, 1042-4, 2007. [PDF]

Fadiga L., ESF-OMLL Final Meeting. Rome, Italy, December 12-14, 2007.

Fadiga L., CoSy Meeting of Minds, Paris, France, September 2007.

Fadiga L., SINS, Verona, Italy, September 27-30, 2007.

Fadiga L., Craighero L., Electrophysiology of action/speech understanding. SINS Verona, Italy, 2007.

Fadiga L., International Meeting "Music, Language and Brain", Dijon, January 2008.

Falotico E., Taiana M., Zambrano A., Bernardino A., Santos-Victor J., Laschi C., Dario P., Predictive tracking across occlusions on the iCub robot. 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 7-10th December 2009, Paris, France. [PDF]

Fazio P, Cantagallo A, Craighero L, D'Ausilio A, Roy AC, Pozzo T, Calzolari F, Granieri E, Fadiga L. Encoding of human action in Broca's area. Brain. 2009 Jul;132(Pt 7):1980-8. [PDF]

Falck-Ytter, T., Gredebäck,G., & von Hofsten, C. 2006. Infants predict other people’s action goals. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 878 – 879. [PDF]

Figueira D., Lopes M., Ventura R., Ruesch J., From pixels to objects: enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots. Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009), Kobe, Japan, 2009. [PDF]

Fitzpatrick, P., Metta, G., and Natale, L. "Towards Long-Lived Robot Genes", Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems Special Issue on Humanoid Technologies, 2008, Vol 56, Issue 1-3. [PDF]

Fitzpatrick, P., Needham, A., Natale, L., and Metta, G. "Shared Challenges in Object Perception for Robots and Infants", in a special issue of Infant and Child Development. Vol 17, Issue 1, pp. 17-24, 2008. [PDF]

Francois, D., Polani, D., and Dautenhahn, K., On-line behaviour classification and adaptation to human-robot interaction styles, Proc. 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI07), March 9-11, 2007, Washington DC, USA, pp. 295 – 302, 2007 [PDF]

Francois, D., Polani, D., and Dautenhahn, K., On-line behaviour classification and adaptation to human-robot interaction styles. In ACM proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference on Human Robot Interaction HRI 2007, Washington DC, USA, 2007.[PDF]

Francois, D., Dautenhahn, K., and Polani, D., Using Real-Time Recognition of Human-Robot Interaction Styles for Creating Adaptive Robot Behaviour in Robot-Assisted Play. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life 2009, ALIFE'09, Nashville USA, pp. 45–52. 2009. *Winner of Best Paper Award [PDF]

Francois, D., Powell, S. and Dautenhahn, K., A long-term study of children with autism playing with a robotic pet: Taking inspirations from non-directive play therapy to encourage children's proactivity and initiative-taking. Special journal issue on Robots in the Wild: Exploring human-robot interaction in naturalistic environments, Interaction Studies 10:3, pp. 324–373. 2009. [PDF]

Francois, D., Polani, D., Dautenhahn, K., Towards Socially Adaptive Robots: A Novel Method for Real Time Recognition of Human-Robot Interaction Styles. Proceeedings of the 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2008), December 1-3, 2008, pp.353-359, Daejeon, Korea. [PDF]

Fumagalli M., Gijsberts, A., Ivaldi, S., Jamone, L., Metta, G., Natale, L., Nori, F., Sandini, G. Learning to Exploit Proximal Force Sensing: a Comparison Approach. From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots. (2010) [PDF]

Gesierich B., Canto R, Fabbri Destro M., Fadiga L., Finos L., Hersch M., Oliynyk A., Craighero L., Study of kinematics and eye movements during imitation, CogSys II (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 12-13 April, 2006. [PDF]

Gesierich, B., Canto, R., Cipone, M., and Fadiga, L. "Virtax: a new software-based stereotaxic tool for brain research", submitted paper. [PDF]

Gijsberts, A., Metta, G. and Rothkrantz, L., Evolutionary Optimization of Least-Squares Support Vector Machines, To appear in: Annals of Information Systems, Special Issue on Data Mining, 2008. [PDF]

Gomez, G., Hernandez, A., Eggenberger Hotz, P., and Pfeifer, R. 2005. An adaptive learning mechanism for teaching a robot to grasp. International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 2005). [PDF]

Gomez, G., Hernandez, A., Eggenberger Hotz, P., and Pfeifer, R. 2005. An adaptive learning mechanism for teaching a robot to grasp. International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 2005). [PDF]

Gomez, G., Hernandez, A., Eggenberger Hotz, P. 2006. An adaptive neural controller for a tendon driven robotic hand. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-9). T. Arai et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 298-307. [PDF]

Gomez, G. and Eggenberger Hotz, P. (In press). Evolutionary synthesis of grasping through self-exploratory movements of a robotic hand. Accepted for publication on the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2007 . [PDF]

Gredebaeck, G., Ornkloo,H., & von Hofsten, C. 2006. The development of reactive saccade latencies. Experimental Brain Research. [PDF]

Gredebaeck, G., von Hofsten, C., Taking an Action perspective on Infant's object representations. Progress In Brain Research, Vol. 164, Elsevier, 2007. [PDF]

Greggio, N., Manfredi, L., Laschi, C., Dario, P., Carrozza, M.C., RobotCub Implementation of Real-Time Least-Square Fitting of Ellipses, Simulation, Modelling and Programming for autonomous robots (SIMPAR), November 3-7, Venice -Italy, 2008. [PDF]

Gribovskaya, E., Khansari, M., and Billard, A., Learning non-linear multivariate dynamics of motion of robotics manipulators. International Journal of Robotics Research (submitted) 2009. [PDF]

Grimaldi M., Gili Fivela B., Tavella M., Sigona F., Fitzpatrick P., Metta G., Craighero L., Fadiga L., Sandini G., Synchronized acquisition of Italian speech articulatory data using ultrasound, 3D-articulo graph and laryngograph: first results, UltraFest IV, The Phonetics/Phonology Lab at New York University, New York, September, 2007.

Gronqvist, H., Gredebqeck, G., & von Hofsten, C. 2006. Developmental Asymmetries between Horizontal and Vertical Tracking. Vision Research, 46, 1754-1761. [PDF]

Grönqvist, H., and Strand-Brodd, K., Longitudinal studies of very premature infants: Reaching for moving objects. Submitted Manuscript. 2009. [PDF]

Guenter, F. and Hersch, M. and Calinon, S. and Billard, A., " Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements", Advanced Robotics, Vol. 21, No. 13, pp. 1521-1544, 2007. [PDF]

Hernandez, A., Kato, R., Yokoi, H., and Yu, W. 2006. Development of a multi-DOF electromyography system using the adaptive joint mechanism. Applied Bionics and Mechatronics. ISSN:1776-2322.Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 101-112. [PDF]

Hernandez, A., Yokoi, H., Ohnishi, T., and Arai, T. 2006. An f-MRI study of an EMG prosthetic hand biofeedback system, in: Proceedings of the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, T. Arai et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 921-929. [PDF]

Hernandez, A., Yu, W., Yokoi, H., and Arai, T. 2006. Sensation Generation using Electrical Stimulation for a Prosthetic System. 2006 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics. (ROBOMEC06), 2P2-B22. [PDF]

Hersch, M. and Billard, A. 2006. A Biologically-Inspired Model of Reaching Movements. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Pisa. [PDF]

Hersch, M. and Billard, A. 2006. A Model for Imitating Human Reaching Movements. In Proceedings of the Human Robot Interaction Conference 2006, Salt Lake City. [PDF]

Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. 2006. Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. [PDF]

Hersch, M., Sauser, E. and Billard, A., Online learning of the body schema. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2008. [PDF]

Hersch, M. and Billard, A., Reaching with Multi-Referential Dynamical Systems Autonomous Robots, 25, 71-83, 2008. [PDF]

Hersch, M., Reichert, T., and Billard, A. Iterative rigid body transformation estimation for visual 3-D object tracking. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 08)), (2008) 674-677. [PDF]

Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A., Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24 (2008) 1463–1467. [PDF]

Hinojosa, W. M., Tsagarakis, N. G., Metta, G., Becchi, F., Sandini, G., and Caldwell, D. 2006, Performance Assessment of a 3 DOF Differential Based Waist joint for the “iCub” Baby Humanoid Robot. RO-MAN 06: The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 6-8 September, Hatfield, United Kingdom, pp. 195-201. [PDF]

Hornstein, J., Lopes, M., Santos-Victor, J., and Lacerda, F. 2006. Sound localization for humanoid robots - building audio-motor maps based on the HRTF. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Beijing, China, Oct. 9-15. [PDF]

Ivaldi, S., Baglietto, M., Metta, G., Zoppoli, R., An application of receding horizon neural control in humanoid robotics, Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC 08), Pavia, Italy, September 2008. [PDF]

Ivaldi, S.; Baglietto, M.; Metta, G.; Zoppoli, R. An application of receding-horizon neural control in humanoid robotics. L. Magni et al. (Eds.): Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. Towards New Challenging Applications. pp.541-550 (2009) [PDF]

Jamone, L., Metta, G., Nori, F. and Sandini, G. 2006. James: A Humanoid Robot Acting over an Unstructured World. IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2006, December, Genoa, Italy. [PDF]

Jamone, L., Natale, L., Metta, G. and Sandini G., Autonomous on-line learning of reaching behavior in a humanoid robot, IROS Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning, Nice, September 2008. [PDF]

Just, A., Petreska, B., Billard, A., Craighero, L., D’Ausilio, A., Oliynyk, A. and Fadiga, L., Point-to-Point Unconstrained Gestures: Modeling Wrist and Elbow Trajectories, Biological Cybernetics (submitted), 2009. [PDF]

Keysers C, Fadiga L. The mirror neuron system: new frontiers. Soc Neurosci. 2008;3(3-4):193-8. [PDF]

Kochukhova, O. & Gredeback, G. Learning about occlusion: Initial assumptions and rapid adjustments. Cognition, in press. [PDF]

Kochukhova, O. and Rosander, K., Integrated global motion influences smooth pursuit in infants, Journal of Vision, 8(11):16, 1–12, 2008. [PDF]

Kose-Bagci, H., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C.L., Drum-mate: A Human-Humanoid Drumming Experience Based on the Co-creation System, Technical Report UNIHER-459, University of Hertfordshire, School of Computer Science , Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, Hatfield, Herts, April, 2007. [PDF]

Kose-Bagci, H., Dautenhahn, K., Syrdal, D. S. and Nehaniv, C. L., Drum-mate: A Human-Humanoid Drumming Experience, Proc. IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2007. [PDF]

Kose-Bagci, H., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C. L., Emergent Turn-Taking Dynamics in Drumming Games with a Humanoid Robot”, Proc. IEEE RO-MAN, Munich, Germany, August 1-3, 2008. [PDF]

Kose-Bagci, H., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C.L., Drumming with a Humanoid Robot: Results from Human-Robot Interaction Studies, ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, LAB-RS 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland from August 6-8. (published extended abstract of invited lecture), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008. [PDF]

Kose-Bagci, H., Ferrari, E., Dautenhahn, K., Syrdal, D.S., Nehaniv, C.L., Effects of Embodiment and Gestures on Social Interaction in Drumming Games with a Humanoid Robot. Advanced Robotics, 23(14): 1951-1996, 2009. [PDF]

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Shen, Q., Kose-Bagci, H., Saunders, J., Dautenhahn, K., An Experimental Investigation of Interference Effects in Human-Humanoid Interaction Games. IEEE RO-MAN 2009, 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Sep. 27 - Oct. 2, 2009, Toyama International Conference Center, Japan. [PDF]

Shen, Q., Saunders, J., Kose-Bagci, H., Dautenhahn, K., Acting and Interacting like me? A method for identifying similarity and synchronous behaviour between a human and robot, IEEE IROS Workshop on "From Motor to Interaction Learning in Robots", Nice, France, 26 September 2008. [PDF]

Stellin, G., Cappiello, G., Roccella, S., Carrozza, M. C., Dario, P., Metta, G., Sandini, G., and Becchi, F. 2006. Preliminary Design of an Anthropomorphic Dexterous Hand for a 2-Years-Old Humanoid: towards Cognition. In IEEE BioRob 2006, Pisa February 20-22. [PDF]

Stellin, G., Cappiello, G., Zaccone, F., Cipriani, C., Carrozza, M. C., Dario, P., Design of an Anthropomorphic Dexterous Hand for a 2-Years-Old Humanoid: Ongoing Work, ICRA07. [PDF]

Stellin, G., Cipriani, C., Zaccone, F., Carrozza, M.C., Dario, P., Design of an Anthropomorphic Dexterous Hand for a 2-years-old Humanoid: Ongoing Work, RoManSy 2008, July 5-8, 2008, Tokyo (Japan), 2008. [PDF]

Shutts, K. B., Ornkloo, H., von Hofsten, C. Keen, R., & Spelke, E.S., Young Children's Representations of Spatial and Functional Relationships between Objects. Child Development. 80, 1612-1627. 2009.[PDF]

Strand-Brodd, K., Ewald, U., Gronqvist, H., Holmstrom, G., Stromberg, B., von Hofsten, C., Rosander, K., LOVIS – A LOgitudinal study of VISuomotor capacity in very preterm infants. 2009. Submitted Manuscript. [PDF]

Taiana M., Santos J., Gaspar J., Nascimento J., Bernardino A., Lima P., Tracking objects with generic calibrated sensors: an algorithm based on color and 3D shape features. Robotics and autonomous systems, in press, 2009. [PDF]

Takamuku, S., Gómez, G., Hosoda, K., and Pfeifer, R., "Haptic discrimination of material properties by a robotic hand", In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007), paper Nr. 76. [PDF]

Tello Gamarra F., Pinpin K., Laschi C., Dario P., Forward model applied in visual servoing for a reaching task in the iCub humanoid robot. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics Journal. Vol 6 Issue 3 pp. 345-354, Taylor & Francis 2009. [PDF]

Tikhanoff, V., Fitzpatrick, P., Metta, G., Natale, L., Nori, F. and Cangelosi, A., An Open Source Simulator for Cognitive Robotics Research: The Prototype of the iCub Humanoid Robot Simulator, Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington DC, USA, August 19-21, 2008. [PDF]

Tikhanoff, V., Fitzpatrick, P., Nori, F., Natale, L., Metta G. and Cangelosi, A., The iCub Humanoid Robot Simulator, IROS Workshop on Robot Simulators, September 22, Nice, France, 2008. [PDF]

Tsagarakis, N. G., Kenward, B., Rosander, R., Caldwell, D. G., von Hofsten, C. 2006. "BabyGlove: A Device to study Hand Motion Control Development in Infants, EuroHaptics, Paris, Sept. [PDF]

Tsagarakis, N. G., Sinclair, M., Becchi, F., Metta, G., Sandini, G., and Caldwell, D. G. 2006, "Lower Body Design of the iCub a Human-baby like Crawling Robot", IEEE Humanoids, Genoa, Italy, Dec. pp.456-61. [PDF]

Tsagarakis, N. G. and Caldwell, N. G. 2007. "A Compliant exoskeleton for multi-planar upper limb physiotherapy and training", Advanced Robotics, Invited Paper. [PDF]

Tsagarakis, N.G., Becchi,F., Righetti, L., Ijspeert,A., Caldwell, D.G., 2007, "Lower Body Realization of the Baby Humanoid - 'iCub'", 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, USA, Oct-Nov. (Accepted). [PDF]

Tsagarakis, N.G., Metta, G., Sandini, G., Vernon, D., Beira, R., Santos-Victor, J., Carrazzo, M.C., Becchi, F. and Caldwell, D.G., 2007, "iCub - The Design and Realization of an Open Humanoid Platform for Cognitive and Neuroscience Research", International Journal of Advanced Robotics, Vol. 21 No. 10, pp. 1151-75, Oct. [PDF]

N.G.Tsagarakis, Bram Vanderborght, Matteo Laffranchi and D.G.Caldwell, "The Mechanical Design of the New Lower Body for the Child Humanoid robot 'iCub' ", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009, pp4962-4968. [PDF]

N.G.Tsagarakis, Matteo Laffranchi, Bram Vanderborght, Darwin G. Caldwell, "A Compact Soft Actuator Unit for Small Scale Human Friendly Robots", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference, (ICRA 2009), Kobe Japan, pp4356-4362. [PDF]

Tworek, B., Bernardino, A., Santos-Victor. J., Visual Self-Calibration of Pan-Tilt Kinematic Structures, Robotica 2008, 8th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Aveiro, Portugal, April 2008. [PDF]

Vernon, D. and Furlong, D. 2007. "Philosophical Foundations of Enactive AI", in 50 Years of AI, M. Lungarella et al. (Eds.), Festschrift, LNAI 4850, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 359-370, 2007. [PDF]

Vernon, D, Metta, G., and Sandini, G. "Una panoramica sui sistemi cognitivi artificiali", In Sistemi Intelligenti, August 2007. [PDF]

Vernon, D. Metta. G., and Sandini, G. 2006. “A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents”, IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation, special issue on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-31, 2007. [PDF]

Vernon, D., Metta, G. and Sandini, G. "The iCub Cognitive Architecture: Interactive Development in a Humanoid Robot", IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, Imperial College, London, July 2007. [PDF]

Vernon, D., Cognitive Vision: The Case for Embodied Perception, Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Cognitive Vision, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 127-141, 2008. [PDF]

Vernon, D., Metta, G., Sandini, G., Embodiment in Cognitive Systems: on the Mutual Dependence of Cognition & Robotics, Embodied Cognitive Systems, Gray, J. & Nefti-Meziani, S. (Eds.). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, 2009 (to appear) [PDF]

von Hofsten, C., Kochukhova, O., & Rosander, K. Predictive tracking over occlusions in 4-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 10, 625-640, 2007. [PDF]

von Hofsten, C. Motor Development from an Action Perspective, Child, Elsevier, 2008. [PDF]

von Hofsten, C. and Johansson K., Planning to reach for a rotating rod: Developmental aspects. Zeitschrift für Entwickelungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 41, 207-213. 2009. [PDF]

von Hofsten, C., Action, the foundation for cognitive development, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51, pp. 1-7, 2009. [PDF]

Zambrano D., Falotico E., Manfredi L., Laschi C., A model of the smooth pursuit eye movement with prediction and learning. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics. 2009 (accepted) [PDF]