Estela Bicho’s homepage |
University of Minho Engineering School Dept. Industrial Electronics Centre Algoritmi
Dept. Electrónica Industrial |
Research interests |
Dynamical systems & Dynamic Neural field theoryCognitive Robotics:Natural human-robot interactionHuman-robot interaction and coordinationrobots capable of action understanding and goal inferencegoal-directed imitation learningrobots capable of learning to read the motor intention of othersdevelopment of learning schemes for social robotic systems
Anthropomorphic robotic systems:Human like shape and movementMulti-robot systems:Cooperative Object transportationCooperative object searchFormation control (2D and 3D)
My research deals with the development of neuro-cognitive inspired architectures to endow autonomous robots with some cognitive capacities like decision making, memory, goal inference, action understanding and anticipation. A concrete and recent example is a Dynamic Neural Field based control architecture for more natural human-robot interaction that we have developed in the context of Integrated European Project JAST (“Joint Action Science and Technology”). Videos of the Minho robot in joint action with a human user can be found at
http://staging.esn.eu/projects/ICT-Results/Success_stories.html http://dei-s1.dei.uminho.pt/pessoas/estela/JASTvideos.htm http://dei-s1.dei.uminho.pt/pessoas/estela/JASTVideosFneurorobotics.htm
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