Manuel Lopes
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Closed Projects
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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 | 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 |
[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] 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
[2] 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
[3] 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
[4] 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
[5] K. Rosander, "Biomimetic Eye-Neck Coordination", Proc. of ICDL 2009 - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China, 2009 - PDF
[6] 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
[7] 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
[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, "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
[10] 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
[11] B. Kenward, "A computational model for social learning mechanisms", Proc. of IROS 2008 - Workshop From motor to interaction learning in robots, Nice, France, 2008
[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] 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
[20] 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
[21] 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
[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