Manuel Lopes
Collaborators
Closed Projects
| Acronym | Name | Funding | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESCUE | Cooperative Navigation for Rescue Robots | FCT | 2000|2004 |
| MIRROR | Mirror Neurons for Recognition | EU-FP5 | 2001|2004 |
| ROBOT-CUB | Robotic Open-architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behaviour | EU-FP6 | 2004-09|2010-01 |
| CONTACT | Learning and Development of Contextual Action | EU-FP6 | 2005-09|2009-02 |
| MMCACC | Modern Monte Carlo Algorithms for Computational Control | FCT | 2007-09|2010-12 |
| HANDLE | Developmental pathway towards autonomy and dexterity in robot in-hand manipulation | EU-FP7 | 2009-02|2013-01 |
Journal Papers
[1] G. Metta, L. Natale, F. Nori, G. Sandini, D. Vernon, L. Fadiga, C. von Hofsten, K. Rosander, Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino, Luis Montesano, The iCub humanoid robot: an open-systems platform for research in cognitive development, Neural Networks, 23(8-9), 2010
[2] B. Kenward, A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms, Adaptive Behaviour, 17(6), pp. 467-483, 2009
[3] Manuel Lopes, Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory Motor Coordination to Imitation, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Bio-Robotics, Vol 24(1), 2008
[4] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2007 - PDF
[5] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Visual Learning by Imitation With Motor Representations, IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2005 - PDF
Book Chapters
[6] Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Francisco Melo, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, A Computational Model of Object Affordances, Advances in Cognitive Systems, S.Nefti and J.O.Gray, (Eds.), IET, pp. 87-126, 2010
[7] Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesano, Francisco Melo, José Santos-Victor, Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation: Overview and Computational Approaches, From motor to interaction learning in robots, Olivier Sigaud & Jan Peters (Eds.), Vol. 264, pp. 313-355, Springer, 2010
Conference Papers
[8] Christian Wressnegger, Ashish Jain, M. Batmendijn, Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesano, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, Towards Fully Automated Learning of Grasping Affordances, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009
[9] Manuel Lopes, Active Learning for Reward Estimation in Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Proc. of ECML/PKDD 2009 - European Conference on Machine Learning, Bled, Slovenia, 2009 - PDF
[10] Manuel Lopes, Learning grasping affordances from local visual descriptors, Proc. of ICDL 2009 - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China, 2009 - PDF
[11] Manuel Lopes, Active learning for constrained regression using kernel beta regression models, Proc. of RSS 2009 - Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2009 - PDF
[12] Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Active body schema learning, Proc. of RSS 2009/PASCAL2 Workshop on Regression in Robotics Approaches and Applications, Seattle, WA, USA, 2009 - PDF
[13] K. Rosander, Biomimetic Eye-Neck Coordination, Proc. of ICDL 2009 - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China, 2009 - PDF
[14] Jonas Ruesch, From Pixels to Objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots, Proc. of ICRA 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-09), Kobe, Japan, 2009 - PDF
[15] Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo Ventura, Jonas Ruesch, Towards a spatial model for humanoid social robots, In Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-2009), volume LNAI 5816, pp. 287298. Springer, 2009 - PDF
[16] B. Kenward, A computational model for social learning mechanisms, Proc. of IROS 2008 - Workshop From motor to interaction learning in robots, Nice, France, 2008
[17] Manuel Lopes, Fitted natural actor-critic: A new algorithm for continuous state-action MDPs, Proc. of ECML PKDD 2008 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Antwerp, Belgium, 2008 - PDF
[18] R. Pfeifer, Multimodal Saliency-Based Bottom-Up Attention A Framework for the Humanoid Robot iCub, Proc. of ICRA 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008 - PDF
[19] Manuel Lopes, Machine learning for developmental robotics, Proc. of NIPS 2007 - The 21st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2007
[20] Francisco Melo, Manuel Lopes, Convergence of Independent Adaptive Learners, Proc. of EPIA 2007 - 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2007 - PDF
[21] Manuel Lopes, Affordance-based imitation learning in robots, Proc. of IROS 2007 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, California, USA, 2007
[22] Manuel Lopes, A Learning Framework for Generic Sensory-Motor Maps, Proc. of IROS 2007 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, California, USA, 2007
[23] Manuel Lopes, Modeling Affordances using Bayesian Networks, Proc. of IROS 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, USA, 2007 - PDF
[24] Manuel Lopes, Affordances, Development and Imitation, Proc. of ICDL 2007 - 6th IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, London, UK, 2007 - PDF
[25] Manuel Lopes, Unified framework for imitation-like behaviors, Proc. of AISB2007 - 4th International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, pp. 241-250, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2007 - PDF
[26] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Learning sensory-motor maps for redundant robots, Proc. IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 - PDF
[27] N. Mansard, Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, F. Chaumette, Jacobian Learning Methods for Tasks Sequencing in Visual Servoing, Proc. IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 - PDF
[28] Ricardo Beira, Manuel Lopes, Miguel Praça, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino, G. Metta, F. Becchi, R. Saltaren, Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head, Proc. ICRA2006 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, USA, 2006 - PDF
[29] Jonas Hörnstein, Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, F. Lacerda, Sound localization for humanoid robots – building audio-motor maps based on the HRTF, Proc. IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 - PDF
[30] Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, A Developmental Roadmap for Task Learning by Imitation in Humanoid Robots Baltazars Story, Proc. AISB2005 - Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2005 - PDF
[31] Manuel Lopes, Ricardo Beira, Miguel Praça, José Santos-Victor, An anthropomorphic robot torso for imitation: design and experiments, IROS 2004 - Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004 - PDF
[32] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Motor Representations for Hand Gesture Recognition and Imitation, IROS Workshop on Robot Programming by Demonstration, Las Vegas, USA, 2003 - PDF
[33] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Visual Transformations in Gesture Imitation: what you see is what you do, Proc. ICRA2003 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taiwan, 2003 - PDF
PhD Theses
[34] Manuel Lopes, A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006 - PDF
Technical Reports
[35] Francisco Melo, Manuel Lopes, Convergence of independent adaptive learners, Technical Report RT-603-07, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 2007 - PDF
[1] G. Metta, L. Natale, F. Nori, G. Sandini, D. Vernon, L. Fadiga, C. von Hofsten, K. Rosander, Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino, Luis Montesano, The iCub humanoid robot: an open-systems platform for research in cognitive development, Neural Networks, 23(8-9), 2010
[2] B. Kenward, A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms, Adaptive Behaviour, 17(6), pp. 467-483, 2009
[3] Manuel Lopes, Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory Motor Coordination to Imitation, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Bio-Robotics, Vol 24(1), 2008
[4] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2007 - PDF
[5] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Visual Learning by Imitation With Motor Representations, IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2005 - PDF
[1] Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Francisco Melo, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, A Computational Model of Object Affordances, Advances in Cognitive Systems, S.Nefti and J.O.Gray, (Eds.), IET, pp. 87-126, 2010
[2] Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesano, Francisco Melo, José Santos-Victor, Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation: Overview and Computational Approaches, From motor to interaction learning in robots, Olivier Sigaud & Jan Peters (Eds.), Vol. 264, pp. 313-355, Springer, 2010
[1] Christian Wressnegger, Ashish Jain, M. Batmendijn, Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesano, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, Towards Fully Automated Learning of Grasping Affordances, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009
[2] Manuel Lopes, Active Learning for Reward Estimation in Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Proc. of ECML/PKDD 2009 - European Conference on Machine Learning, Bled, Slovenia, 2009 - PDF
[3] Manuel Lopes, Learning grasping affordances from local visual descriptors, Proc. of ICDL 2009 - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China, 2009 - PDF
[4] Manuel Lopes, Active learning for constrained regression using kernel beta regression models, Proc. of RSS 2009 - Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2009 - PDF
[5] Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Active body schema learning, Proc. of RSS 2009/PASCAL2 Workshop on Regression in Robotics Approaches and Applications, Seattle, WA, USA, 2009 - PDF
[6] K. Rosander, Biomimetic Eye-Neck Coordination, Proc. of ICDL 2009 - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China, 2009 - PDF
[7] Jonas Ruesch, From Pixels to Objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots, Proc. of ICRA 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-09), Kobe, Japan, 2009 - PDF
[8] Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo Ventura, Jonas Ruesch, Towards a spatial model for humanoid social robots, In Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-2009), volume LNAI 5816, pp. 287298. Springer, 2009 - PDF
[9] B. Kenward, A computational model for social learning mechanisms, Proc. of IROS 2008 - Workshop From motor to interaction learning in robots, Nice, France, 2008
[10] Manuel Lopes, Fitted natural actor-critic: A new algorithm for continuous state-action MDPs, Proc. of ECML PKDD 2008 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Antwerp, Belgium, 2008 - PDF
[11] R. Pfeifer, Multimodal Saliency-Based Bottom-Up Attention A Framework for the Humanoid Robot iCub, Proc. of ICRA 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008 - PDF
[12] Manuel Lopes, Machine learning for developmental robotics, Proc. of NIPS 2007 - The 21st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2007
[13] Francisco Melo, Manuel Lopes, Convergence of Independent Adaptive Learners, Proc. of EPIA 2007 - 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2007 - PDF
[14] Manuel Lopes, Affordance-based imitation learning in robots, Proc. of IROS 2007 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, California, USA, 2007
[15] Manuel Lopes, A Learning Framework for Generic Sensory-Motor Maps, Proc. of IROS 2007 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, California, USA, 2007
[16] Manuel Lopes, Modeling Affordances using Bayesian Networks, Proc. of IROS 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, USA, 2007 - PDF
[17] Manuel Lopes, Affordances, Development and Imitation, Proc. of ICDL 2007 - 6th IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, London, UK, 2007 - PDF
[18] Manuel Lopes, Unified framework for imitation-like behaviors, Proc. of AISB2007 - 4th International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, pp. 241-250, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2007 - PDF
[19] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Learning sensory-motor maps for redundant robots, Proc. IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 - PDF
[20] N. Mansard, Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, F. Chaumette, Jacobian Learning Methods for Tasks Sequencing in Visual Servoing, Proc. IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 - PDF
[21] Ricardo Beira, Manuel Lopes, Miguel Praça, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino, G. Metta, F. Becchi, R. Saltaren, Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head, Proc. ICRA2006 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, USA, 2006 - PDF
[22] Jonas Hörnstein, Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, F. Lacerda, Sound localization for humanoid robots – building audio-motor maps based on the HRTF, Proc. IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 - PDF
[23] Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, A Developmental Roadmap for Task Learning by Imitation in Humanoid Robots Baltazars Story, Proc. AISB2005 - Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2005 - PDF
[24] Manuel Lopes, Ricardo Beira, Miguel Praça, José Santos-Victor, An anthropomorphic robot torso for imitation: design and experiments, IROS 2004 - Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004 - PDF
[25] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Motor Representations for Hand Gesture Recognition and Imitation, IROS Workshop on Robot Programming by Demonstration, Las Vegas, USA, 2003 - PDF
[26] Manuel Lopes, José Santos-Victor, Visual Transformations in Gesture Imitation: what you see is what you do, Proc. ICRA2003 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taiwan, 2003 - PDF
[1] Manuel Lopes, A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006 - PDF
[1] Francisco Melo, Manuel Lopes, Convergence of independent adaptive learners, Technical Report RT-603-07, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 2007 - PDF
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João Abrantes
João Avelino
Catarina Barata
Alexandre Bernardino
Heitor Cardoso
Nino Cauli
Bruno Damas
Atabak Dehban
Rui Figueiredo
José Gaspar
Lorenzo Jamone
Manuel Lopes
Plinio Moreno
Luka Lukić
Jorge S. Marques
João Martins
Nuno Barroso Monteiro
Luis Montesano
Nuno Moutinho
Mehmet Mutlu
Athira Nambiar
Ricardo Nunes
Mirko Rakovic
Ricardo Ribeiro
David Ribeiro
Giampiero Salvi
José Santos-Victor
Giovanni Saponaro
Sofija Spasojevic
Pedro Vicente