An automatic system for humanoid dance creation

A Manfrè, I Infantino, F Vella, S Gaglio - Biologically Inspired Cognitive …, 2016 - Elsevier
The paper describes a novel approach to allow a robot to dance following musical rhythm.
The proposed system generates a dance for a humanoid robot through the combination of …

Creation and cognition for humanoid live dancing

A Augello, I Infantino, A Manfrè, G Pilato, F Vella… - Robotics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Computational creativity in dancing is a recent and challenging research field in Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics. We present a cognitive architecture embodied in a humanoid …

Learning by demonstration for a dancing robot within a computational creativity framework

A Manfrè, I Infantino, A Augello… - 2017 First IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents a system that learns a set of movements for a creative dancing robot. A
human user only dances in front of an 3D camera, and automatically the acquisition system …

[PDF][PDF] Robodanza: Live performances of a creative dancing humanoid

I Infantino, A Augello, A Manfré, G Pilato… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - academia.edu
The paper describes the artistic performances obtained with a creative system based on a
cognitive architecture. The performances are executed by a humanoid robot whose creative …

A cognitive architecture for social robots

I Infantino, A Augello, U Maniscalto… - 2018 IEEE 4th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper illustrates a software architecture allowing a robot to socially interact with human
beings, sharing with them some basilar cognitive mechanisms. Robust sensing of the …

The effects of soft somatosensory system on the execution of robotic tasks

A Augello, I Infantino, U Maniscalco… - 2017 First IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays there is a growing interest in the design and implementation of robots capable of
exhibiting sophisticated behaviours, taking part in social interactions, expressing and …

Talking with sentiment: Adaptive expression generation behavior for social robots

I Rodriguez, A Manfré, F Vella, I Infantino… - Advances in Physical …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a neural-based approach for generating natural gesticulation
movements for a humanoid robot enriched with other relevant social signals depending on …

An artificial pain model for a humanoid robot

U Maniscalco, I Infantino - … Multimedia Systems and Services 2017 10, 2018 - Springer
The primary aim of this paper is to give to a humanoid robot the sense of pain. That because
the pain is one of the ways to which we protect our body. Thus, we consider that a humanoid …

Robotic creativity driven by motivation and semantic analysis

A Augello, I Infantino, G Pilato… - 2014 IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper proposes a system architecture for artificial creativity that enables a robot to
perform portraits. The proposed cognitive architecture is inspired by the PSI model, and it …

Human-robot interaction based on introspective capability

G Pilato, R Rizzo, F Vella… - 2012 Sixth International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper describes a mechanism of introspection of a humanoid robot based on self
observation of its running processes and sensory data. The robot builds is internal state …