background and aims: this research evaluated the effects of humanoid robots on improvement of eye contact in autistic children. methods and materials: this research used a multiple baseline, single-subject design with control to test 5 autistic children (2 girls and 3 boys) in tehran during 2010. the children aged 7 to 9 years and were tested by gilliam autism rating scales (gars) to ensure the...

This paper presents an approach for learning complex tasks on real robots, like walking or kicking in a humanoid soccer robot, profiting at most from the possibility to run simulations of a virtual model of the robot. This approach avoids to damage the real robot in the time consuming trials needed to learn a correct behavior and avoids to overfit the virtual robot model. The basic idea is to r...

An autonomous soccer-playing robot was designed and constructed as part of the electrical engineering senior project at Brigham Young University. Unique physical features enable ball handling abilities. A front-side rotating drum retains the ball by applying backspin. A pneumatic kicker allows for fast accurate kicks. Robot movement control is performed by three different systems. The low-level...

Programming a humanoid robot to dance to live music is a complex task requiring contributions from multiple disciplines. A vocabulary of intricate limb motions must be designed to be stable and stylistically consistent. To produce coordinate these movements with music, the robot must be able to detect the appropriate beats within audio. One approach is a perceptual model of hearing, which can a...

This paper describes the CS Freiburg Team for the RoboCup '98 contest. Our main focus lies in developing reliable and robust perception technology and basic behaviors for playing soccer with mobile robots. We present the hard-and software components of our robots including a self-built device for kicking the ball. Furthermore, we show how some key components from robot navigation, e.g. self-loc...

Robots participating in a soccer game need to determine the position of the ball, other robots, and the goal positions using real time visual tracking, along with being able to navigate safely, move the ball towards the opponents goal, and co-operate with teammates. Each soccer robot is equipped with basic behaviours such as chasing the ball and shoot it at the goal. Although the single-agent b...

This paper describes humanoid robot learning from observation and game playing using information provided by a real-time PC-based vision system. To cope with extremely fast motions that arise in the environment, a visual system capable of perceiving the motion of several objects at 60 fields per second was developed. We have designed a suitable error recovery scheme for our vision system to ens...