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JournalsEfficient Behavior Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration, . Autonomous Robots, Volume 42, Issue 5, pp 1103-1115, 2018 (,web, pdf) Learning Legible Motion from Human-Robot Interactions, . International Journal of Social Robots, 2017. (doi:10.1007/s12369-017-0400-4,web, pdf) Parietal neurons encode expected gains in instrumental information, . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1613844114, web, pdf) Intrinsically motivated oculomotor exploration guided by uncertainty reduction and conditioned reinforcement in non-human primates, . Nature Scientific Reports, 6:20202, 2016. (doi:10.1038/srep20202,web, pdf) Multi-Armed Bandits for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, . Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM), Vol 7, No 2, 2015. (pdf) Exploiting task constraints for self-calibrated brain-machine interface control using error-related potentials, . PLOS One, 2015. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131491,web, pdf) Active Learning for Autonomous Intelligent Agents: Exploration, Curiosity, and Interaction, . arXiv:1403.1497 [cs.AI], 2014. (pdf) Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms, . Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 2013. (web, pdf) Active learning of visual descriptors for grasping using non-parametric smoothed beta distributions,. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(3), 452-462, 2012.(pdf) The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development,. Neural Networks, 2010. (pdf) Active Learning and Intrinsically Motivated Exploration in Robots: Advances and Challenges (Guest Editorial),. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 2(2), June, 2010. (pdf) A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms, . Adaptive Behaviour, 467(17), 2009. (pdf) Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory Motor Maps to Imitation, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24(1), 2008. (pdf) A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, . IEEE Transactions in Systems Man and Cybernetic - Part B: Cybernetics, 37(2), 2007. (DOI:10.1109/TSMCB.2006.886949, web, pdf) Visual Learning by Imitation with Motor Representations, . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 35, 2005. (pdf)
Book ChaptersMotivated cognition: Neural and computational mechanisms of curiosity, attention and intrinsic motivation, . Recent Developments in Neuroscience Research on Human Motivation ed. by S. il Kim, J. Reeve, and M. Bong. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017. (, web, pdf) Intrinsic motivation, curiosity and learning: theory and applications in educational technologies, . ''Motivation: Theory, Neurobiology and Applications''. In: ed. by B. Studer and S. Knecht. Progress in Brain Research. Elsevier, . (, web, 2016 pdf) Multi-class Generalized Binary Search for Active Inverse Reinforcement Learning, . arXiv:1301.5488 [cs.LG], 2013. (pdf) Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation:
Overview and Computational Approaches, . in Olivier Sigaud & Jan
Peters editors, From motor to interaction learning in robots, Studies
in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume
264, pp. 313 -- 355, 2010. (pdf) ConferencesAn Adaptive and Transferable Dialog Management System for Social Aware Task Execution, . EPIA, Portugal, 2019. (,pdf) Between Clones and Snow-Flakes : Personalization in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, . EPIA, Portugal, 2019. (,pdf) Planning Ergonomic Sequences of Actions in Human-Robot Interaction, . ICRA, Brisbane, Australia, 2018. (,pdf) Interactive Optimal Teaching with Unknown Learners, . IJCAI, 2018. (doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/356,pdf) No Learner Left Behind: On the Complexity of Teaching Multiple Learners Simultaneously, . IJCAI, Melbourne, Australia, 2017. (doi:10.24963/ijcai.2017/502,pdf) Impact of Robot Initiative on Human-Robot Collaboration, . Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACMd/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, , 2017. (doi:10.1145/3029798.3038373,pdf) Postural Optimization for an Ergonomic Human-Robot Interaction, . IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017), , 2017. (doi:,pdf) A Multimodal Dataset for Object Model Learning from Natural Human-Robot Interaction, . IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017), , 2017. (doi:,pdf) Preference Learning on the Execution of Collaborative Human-Robot Tasks, . IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. (doi:10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989108,pdf) Multi-Bound Tree Search for Logic-Geometric Programming in Cooperative Manipulation Domains, . IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. (doi:10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989464,pdf) Relational Activity Processes for Modeling Concurrent Cooperation, . IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. (doi:,pdf) A Comparison of Automatic Teaching Strategies for Heterogeneous Student Populations, . Educational Data Mining (EDM) Raleigh, NC, USA, 2016. (doi:,pdf) Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Relational Domains, . International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015. (,web,pdf) Facilitating Intention Prediction for Humans by Optimizing Robot Motions, . IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. (doi:10.1109/IROS.2015.7353529,pdf) Robot Programming from Demonstration, Feedback and Transfer, . IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. (doi:10.1109/IROS.2015.7353615,pdf) Temporal Segmentation of Pair-Wise Interaction Phases in Sequential Manipulation Demonstrations, . IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. (doi:10.1109/IROS.2015.7353415, web, pdf) Online Optimization of Teaching Sequences with Multi-Armed Bandits, . 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, London, United Kingdom, 2014. (pdf) Interactive Learning from Unlabeled Instructions, . UAI-30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Quebec, Canada, 2014. (pdf) Calibration-Free BCI Based Control, . AAAI, Montreal, Canada, 2014. (pdf) Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Challenges and Future Trends, . Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel, Interaction, Rouen, France, 2014. (pdf) Robot Learning Simultaneously a Task and How to Interpret Human Instructions, . ICDL-Epirob, Osaka, Japan, 2013. (pdf) Learning Multiple Behaviors from Unlabeled Demonstrations in a Latent Controller Space, . International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Atlanta, USA, 2013. (pdf) Active Learning for Teaching a Robot Grounded Relational Symbols, . International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Beijing, China, 2013. (pdf) Learning Exploration Strategies in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning, . International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2013. (pdf) Exploration in Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Empirically Estimating Learning Progress, . Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Tahoe, USA, 2012. (pdf) The Strategic Student Approach for Life-Long Exploration and Learning, . IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2012. (pdf) Algorithmic and Human Teaching of Sequential Decision Tasks, . AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Toronto, Canada, 2012. (pdf) Simultaneous Acquisition of Task and Feedback Models, . IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Germany, 2011. (pdf) Robot Self-Initiative and Personalization by Learning through Repeated Interactions, . 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot (HRI’11), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2011. (web,pdf) Learning from Demonstration using MDP Induced Metrics, . European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML/PKDD), Barcelona, Spain, 2010. (pdf) Analysis of inverse reinforcement learning with perturbed demonstrations, . European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. (pdf) Body Schema Acquisition through Active Learning, .IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2010. (pdf) Active Learning for Reward Estimation in Inverse Reinforcement Learning,. European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML/PKDD), Bled, Slovenia, 2009. (pdf) From Pixels to Objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots, . IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, 2009. (pdf) Biomimetic Eye-Neck Coordination, . IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Shanghai, China, 2009. (pdf) Learning grasping affordances from local visual descriptors,. IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Shanghai, China, 2009. (pdf)(full version) Fitted natural actor-critic: A new algorithm for continuous state-action MDPs, .European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML/PKDD), Antwerp, Belgium, 2008. (pdf) Multimodal Saliency-Based Bottom-Up Attention: A Framework for the Humanoid Robot iCub, . IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, California, USA, 2008. (pdf) A Learning Framework for Generic Sensory-Motor Maps, . IEEE Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), San Diego, USA, 2007. (DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399566, web,pdf) Affordance-based imitation learning in robots, . IEEE Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), San Diego, USA, 2007. (pdf) Modeling Object Affordances using Bayesian networks, . IEEE Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), San Diego, USA, 2007. (pdf Convergence of independent adaptive learners, . In Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4874, pp. 555-567, Springer-Verlag, (also available as ISR technical report RT-603-07), 2007. (pdf) Affordances, development and imitation, IEEE - International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, UK, July, 2007. (pdf) Unified framework for imitation-like behaviors, AISB - 4th International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Newcastle, United Kingdom, April, 2007. (pdf) Sound localization for humanoid robots - building audio-motor maps based on the HRTF, . IEEE Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, 2006. (pdf) Learning of Sensory-Motor Maps in Redundant Robots, . IEEE Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, 2006. (pdf) Jacobian Learning Methods for Tasks Sequencing in Visual Servoing, . IEEE Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, 2006. (DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281958, web, pdf) Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head, . IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Florida, USA, 2006. (pdf) A Developmental Roadmap for Task Learning by Imitation in Humanoid Robots, . AISB - Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artefacts, Hatfield, England, 2005. (full version) An Anthropomorphic Robot Torso for Imitation: Design and Experiments, . International Conference on Intelligent Robots Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, 2004. (pdf) Motor Representations for Hand Gesture Recognition and Imitation, . IROS Workshop on Robot Programming by Demonstration, Las Vegas, USA, 2003. (full version) Visual Transformations in Gesture Imitation, . IEEE - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Taipei, Taiwan, 2003. (pdf) ThesisA developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, , PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, 2006. (pdf)
Invited TalksOnline Optimization for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (plenary talk), . TICE, Beziers, France, 2014. Active Learning in Human-Robot Interaction, . Robotics: Science and Systems : Workshop on Learning Plans with Context From Human Signals, Berkeley, USA, 2014. Learning Tasks and Representations from Human-Machine Interactions, . ICRA Workshop on Active Visual Learning and Hierarchical Visual Representations for General-Purpose Robot Vision, Hong-Kong, 2014. Semi-Autonomous 3rd-Hand Robot, . ICRA Workshop on Autonomous Grasping and Manipulation: An Open Challenge, Hong-Kong, 2014. Autonomous Exploration Through Curiosity and Social Guidance, . GECCO Workshop: Evo-Devo-Robo: Evolutionary Robotics and Developmental Robotics, Philadelphia, USA, 2012. Interactive Learning in Social Robots, . German-French Workshop Perspectives on Cognitive Interaction and Technology, Bielefeld, Germany, 2012. Social Learning with Inverse Reinforcement Learning, . ICML workshop on New Developments in Imitation Learning, USA, 2011. Active Exploration in Social Learning, . Dagstuhl Seminar: Exploration and Curiosity in Robot Learning and Inference, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2011. Active Learning for Imitation, .Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) Workshop: Towards Closing the Loop: Active Learning for Robotics, Zaragoza, Spain, 2010. Learning and Development, .IROS Workshop: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning II, Nice, France, 2008. A computational model of Social learning behaviours. , IROS Workshop: From motor to interaction learning in robots, Nice, France, 2008. WorkshopsCollaboration in Ad Hoc Teamwork: Ambiguous Tasks, Roles, and Communication, . AAMAS Workshop: Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Singapore, 2016. (pdf) Semi-Autonomous 3rd-Hand Robot, . Workshop on Cognitive Robotics in Future Manufacturing Scenarios, European Robotics Forum, Vienna, Austria, 2015. (pdf) Zero-calibration BMIs for sequential tasks using error-related potentials, . IROS Workshop on Neuroscience and RoboticsTokyo, Japan, 2013. (pdf) Interactive Task Estimation From Unlabelled Teaching Signals, . International Workshop on Human-Machine Systems, Cyborgs and Enhancing Devices Manchester, UK, 2013. (pdf) Simultaneous Acquisition of Task and Feedback Models, . IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (ALIHT), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. (see ICDL11 paper for the extended version pdf) Robot Self-Initiative and Personalization by Learning through Repeated Interactions, . Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) Workshop: Learning for Human-Robot Interaction Modeling, Zaragoza , Spain, 2010. Robotic Open-Architecture Technology for cognition, Understanding, and Behaviours, . CogSys, Zurick, Switzerland, 2010. (pdf) Active Learning for Reward Estimation in Inverse Reinforcement Learning, .Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) Workshop: Bridging the gap between high-level discrete representations and low-level continuous behaviors, Seattle, USA, 2009 Active learning for constrained regression using kernel beta regression models, .Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)/PASCAL2 Workshop Regression in Robotics - Approaches and Applications, Seattle, USA, 2009 (PASCAL Poster Competition, runner-up prize) Active body schema learning, . Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)/PASCAL2 Workshop Regression in Robotics - Approaches and Applications, Seattle, USA, 2009 Machine Learning for Developmental Robotics, .NIPS Workshop: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada, 2007. (poster pdf) A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, Cogsys, 2006. (abstract pdf, poster pdf) A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots, . Brain Development,2005. (abstract pdf, poster pdf)OthersReal-time Framework for Gesture Imitation in
Humanoid Robots. . Festival Nacional de Robotica, Portugal, 2006. |