Name: Petar Kormushev
Member since: 2010-09-25 15:46:41
Last Login: 2011-11-01 08:54:14
Homepage: http://kormushev.com
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Petar Kormushev is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Advanced Robotics department of the Italian Institute of Technology, doing research on the iCub humanoid robot and a Barrett WAM robot. In 2009 he graduated with a PhD degree in Computational Intelligence from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include robotics and machine learning, especially reinforcement learning for intelligent robot behavior. He holds a MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence, a MSc degree in Bio- and Medical Informatics, and a BSc degree in Computer Science from Sofia University. He has participated in many scientific projects, including European INFRAWEBS project for designing the future Semantic Web, and Japanese NEDO project for developing a common basis for next- generation robots. He has won a number of prestigious awards, including a “John Atanasoff” award, a “St. Kliment Ohridski” award, and a 4-year Monbukagakusho/MEXT Japanese research fellowship. Petar's website: http://kormushev.com
Recent blog entries by Petar.Kormushev
The video shows a Japanese humanoid robot (Fujitsu HOAP-2) learning a surface cleaning task by imitation learning. The present approach allows a free-standing, self-balancing humanoid robot to acquire new motor skills by kinesthetic teaching.
Video credit:
Dr. Petar Kormushev
Prof. Dragomir N. Nenchev
More info at:
http://kormushev.com/research/videos/
Robot Archer iCub
Humanoid robot iCub learns the skill of archery. It learns by itself to aim and shoot arrows at the target. It manages to hit the center of the target in only 8 trials.
The experiments were conducted by Dr. Petar Kormushev, Dr. Sylvain Calinon, and Dr. Ryo Saegusa at the Italian Institute of Technology.
Other videos by the same author:
http://kormushev.com/research/videos/
Photos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petar_kormushev/sets/
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