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2019

H. Beik-Mohammadi, M. A. Zamani, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan Wermter. (2019)
Mixed-Reality Deep Reinforcement Learning for a Reach-to-grasp Task

 Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019, pages 611-623 - Sep 2019.


Bothe C., Wermter S. (2019)
MoonGrad at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Ensemble BiRNNs for Contextual Emotion Detection in Dialogues
the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Minneapolis, USA


Wansoo Kim, Marta Lorenzini, Pietro Balatti, Phuong D.H. Nguyen, Ugo Pattacini, Vadim Tikhanoff, Luka Peternel, Claudio Fantacci, Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta, Arash Ajoudani
Adaptable Workstations for Human-Robot Collaboration: A Reconfigurable Framework for Improving Worker Ergonomics and Productivity
In IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 14-26, Sept. 2019.


A. Rossi, S. Moros, K. Dautenhahn, K.L. Koay and M.L. Walters, (2019, August) PDF

Getting to know Kaspar: Effects of people’s awareness of a robot’s capabilities on their trust in the robot.

IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India


A. Rossi, K. Dautenhahn, K.L. Koay and M.L. Walters, (2019, August) PDF

Evaluating the effects of an autonomous robot’s social behaviours on people’s trust.

In IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India


Phuong D.H. Nguyen, Matej Hoffmann,  Ugo Pattacini, and Giorgio Metta. (2019, August).
Reaching development through visuo-proprioceptive-tactile integration on a humanoid robot - a deep leanring approach
In 2019 Joint IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), pp. 163-170


A. Rossi, K. Dautenhahn, K.L. Koay and M.L. Walters, (2019, August) PDF

Investigating human perceptions of trust and social cues in robots for safe HRI,

In Personal robotics and secure human-robot collaboration Workshop, Joint IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics - IEEE ICDL- EPIROB, Oslo, Norway


A. Rossi, F. Garcia, A. Cruz Maya, K. Dautenhahn, K. L. Koay, M. L. Walters and A. K. Pandey. (2019, July) PDF

Investigating the Effects of Social Interactive Behaviours of a Robot on People’s Trust During a Navigation Task.

In: Althoefer K., Konstantinova J., Zhang K. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11649. Springer, Cham


Billier A., Stellin G., Metta G., Parmiggiani A. (2019).
Robot hand design with linkage and push-pull cable transmission.
The IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, (AIM 2019) Hong Kong


Mohammad Thabet, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Angelo Cangelosi. (2019)
Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning with Imaginary Rollouts for Human-robot Interaction
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019). IEEE, 2019


Lakomkin, E., Zamani M., Weber C., Magg S., Wermter, S. (2019, May)
Incorporating End-to-End Speech Recognition Models for Sentiment Analysis
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 7976-7982.

2018

Lakomkin, E., Weber C., Magg S., Wermter, S. (2018, November)
KT-Speech-Crawler: Automatic Dataset Construction for Speech Recognition from YouTube Videos
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 90--95 - 2018


Bothe, C., Garcia F., Maya, A. C., Pandey A. K., and Wermter, S. (2018).
Towards Dialogue-based Navigation with Multivariate Adaptation driven by Intention and Politeness for Social Robots.
The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2018), Qingdao, China


A. Rossi, P. Holthaus, K. Dautenhahn, K. L. Koay and M. L. Walters, PDF
Getting to know Pepper. Effects of people's awareness of a robot's capabilities on their trust in the robot.
In 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction - HAI 2018, 15-18th December 2018, Southampton, UK


M. Charbonneau, V. Modugno, F. Nori, G. Oriolo, D. Pucci and S. Ivaldi
Learning robust task priorities of QP-based whole-body torque-controllers
2018 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nov 2018


Mohammad Ali Zamani, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber, Di Fu, and Stefan Wermter (2018, Nov)
Deep Reinforcement Learning using Compositional Representations for Performing Instructions.
Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics, Volume 9, pages 358-–373 - Nov 2018.


Hadi Beik-Mohammadi, Matthias Kerzel, Michael Görner, Mohammad Ali Zamani, Manfred Eppe, Stefan Wermter  (2018)
Neural End-to-End Learning of Reach for Grasp Ability with a 6-DoF Robot Arm IROS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning in Robot Motion Planning - Sep 2018.


Lakomkin, E., Zamani M., Weber C., Magg S., Wermter, S. (2018, October)
On the Robustness of Speech Emotion Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction with Deep Neural Networks
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots, pages 854--860 - 2018


Matthias Kerzel, Hadi Beik-Mohammadi, Mohammad Ali Zamani, and Stefan Wermter (2018)
Accelerating Deep Continuous Reinforcement Learning through Task Simplification.
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018.


S. Dafarra, G. Nava, M. Charbonneau, N. Guedelha, F. Andrade, S. Traversaro, L. Fiorio, F. Romano, F. Nori, G. Metta, and D. Pucci,
A Control Architecture with Online Predictive Planning for Position and Torque Controlled Walking of Humanoid Robots
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2018


A. Rossi, K. Dautenhahn, K. L. Koay and M. L. Walters PDF
Investigating human perception of trust and social cues in robots for safe HRI in home environments
In International PhD Conference on Safe and Social Robotics (SSR-2018), Madrid, 29-30 September 2018


A. Rossi, P. Holthaus, K. Dautenhahn, K.L. Koay and M.L. Walters, PDF
Programming Pepper: What can you make a humanoid robot do?
In 3rd Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics - IEEE-RO-MAN 2018, 27 - 31 of August 2018, Nanjing, China


Egor Lakomkin, Mohammad Ali Zamani, Cornelius Weber, Sven Magg, Stefan Wermter
EmoRL:Real-time Acoustic Emotion Classification using Deep Reinforcement Learning
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - May 2018.


 Mohammad Ali Zamani, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter
Language-modulated Safer Actions using Deep Reinforcement Learning
ICRA PhD Forum - May 2018.


Mohammad Ali Zamani, Hadi Beik-Mohammadi, Matthias Kerzel,Sven Magg, Stefan Wermter
Learning Spatial Representation for Secure Human-Robot Collaboration in Joint Manual Tasks
ICRA workshop on the WORKplace is better with intelligent, collaborative, robot MATEs (WORKMATE) - May 2018.


Phuong D.H. Nguyen, Fabrizio Bottarel, Matej Hoffmann,  Ugo Pattacini, Lorenzo Natale, and Giorgio Metta. (2018, Nov).
Merging physical and social interaction for effective human-robot collaboration.
In 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).


Phuong D.H. Nguyen, Tobias Fischer, Hyung Jin Chang, Ugo Pattacini, Giorgio Metta, and Yiannis Demiris. (2018, Oct).
Transferring Visuomotor Learning from Simulation to the Real World for Robotics Manipulation Tasks
In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.


Bothe, C., Magg, S., Weber, C., and Wermter, S. (2018).
Conversational Analysis using Utterance-level Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks.
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2018.


Sven Magg, Stefan Wermter
The next generation of robots
Impact, Volume 2018, Number 1, March 2018, pp. 29-31 (3), Science Impact Ltd


Tobias Fischer, Jordi-Ysard Puigbo, Daniel Camilleri, Phuong D. Nguyen, Clément Moulin-Frier, Stephan Lallee, Giorgio Metta, Tony J Prescott, Yiannis Demiris, Paul F. Verschure.
iCub-HRI: A software framework for complex human-robot interaction scenarios on the iCub humanoid robot
Frontier in Robotics and AI


Bothe, C., Weber, C., Magg, S., and Wermter, S. (2018). PDF
A Context-based Approach for Dialogue Act Recognition using Simple Recurrent Neural Networks.

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2018).


Barros P., Churamani N., Lakomkin E., Siqueira H., Sutherland A., Wermter S. (2018, July)
The omg-emotion behavior dataset
Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)


Dong Hai Phuong Nguyen, Matej Hoffmann, Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, and Giorgio Metta. (2018, March).
Compact Real-time avoidance on a Humanoid Robot for Human-robot Interaction.
In HRI ’18: 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 5–8, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3171221.3171245


Alessandra Rossi, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay, and Michael L. Walters, PDF, 
The impact of peoples' personal dispositions and personalities on their trust of robots in an emergency scenario.

Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics 2018

2017

Rossi, A., Dautenhahn, K., Koay, K. L. and Walters, M. L. (2017, November). PDF
How the Timing and Magnitude of Robot Errors May Influence People Trust of Robots in an Emergency Scenario.
The Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics - ICSR2017. November 22-24th, 2017, Tsukuba, Japan.


Rossi, A., Dautenhahn, K., Koay, K. L. and Walters, M. L. (2017, November). PDF
Human Perceptions of the Severity of Domestic Robot Errors.
The Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics - ICSR2017. November 22-24th, 2017, Tsukuba, Japan.


Lakomkin, E., Weber, C., Wermter, S. (2017, April).
Automatically augmenting an emotion dataset improves classification using audio.
15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Valencia, Spain.


Rossi, A., Dautenhahn, K., Koay, K. L., & Saunders, J. (2017, March). PDF
Investigating Human Perceptions of Trust in Robots for Safe HRI in Home Environments.
In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 375-376). ACM


Zamani, M.A., Magg, S., Weber, C., and Wermter, S. (2017, August).
Deep Reinforcement Learning using Symbolic Representation for Performing Spoken Language Instructions.
In 2nd Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR) on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on.


Bothe, C., Magg, S., Weber, C., and Wermter, S. (2017, September). PDF
Dialogue-based Neural Learning to Estimate Sentiment of Next-upcoming Utterance. 
In the Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-2017).


Lakomkin, E., Bothe, C., and Wermter, S. (2017, September). PDF

GradAscent at EmoInt-2017: Character- and Word-Level Recurrent Neural Network Models for Tweet Emotion Intensity Detection. 
In the Proceedings of Workshop WASSA at EMNLP-2017.


Clément Moulin-Frier, Tobias Fischer, Maxime Petit, Grégoire Pointeau, Jordi-Ysard Puigbo, Ugo Pattacini, Sock Ching Low, Daniel Camilleri, Phuong Nguyen, Matej Hoffmann, Hyung Jin Chang, Martina Zambelli, Anne-Laure Mealier, Andreas Damianou, Giorgio Metta, Tony J Prescott, Yiannis Demiris, Peter Ford Dominey, Paul FMJ Verschure

DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

2016

Charbonneau, M., Nori, F., & Pucci, D. (2016, November).
On-line joint limit avoidance for torque controlled robots by joint space parametrization.
In Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on (pp. 899-904). IEEE. Cancun, Mexico. doi:10.1109/HUMANOIDS. 2016.7803379


Nguyen, P. D., Hoffmann, M., Pattacini, U., & Metta, G. (2016, November).
A fast heuristic Cartesian space motion planning algorithm for many-DoF robotic manipulators in dynamic environments.
In Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on (pp. 884-891). IEEE. Cancun, Mexico.