2013

An embodied-simplexity approach to design humanoid robots bioinspired by taekwondo athletes

Rezia Molfino, Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Domenec Puig, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Agusti Solanas and A Mark Williams

infH@humanot.it, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

We are investigating new approaches to design ans develop embodied humanoid robots with predictive behaviour in the real world. Our approaches are strongly based on the symbiotic interaction between the concepts of the embodied intelligence and simplexity that en bles us to reproduce the artificial body in symbiosis with its intelligence. Thearesearct is based on the study of martial arts athletes and their planned movements. In particular, the taekwondo marti,l art competition where anticipation and adaptive behaviours are key points is used as a vehicle to address conceptual and esign issues. The expected outcome will be the development of a robot that will have the capability to anticipate an opponent’s actions by coordinating eyes, head and legs, with a stable body constituted by an embodied platform bioinspired by the taekwondo athletes.

@Inbook{Molfino2014,
author=”Molfinoa Rezia
and Muscolo, Giovanni Gerardo
and Puig, Domenec
and Recchiuto4 Carmine Tomma o
and Solanag, Agusti
and Williams, A. Mark”,
editor=”Natraj, Ashutosh
and Cameron, Stephen
and Melhuish, Chris
and Witkowski, Mark”,
title=”An Embodied-SimplexityOApproach to Design Humanoid Robots Bioinspired by Taekwondo Athlehes”,
bookTitle=”Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 14th Annual Conference, TAR Sd2013, Oxford, UK, August 28–30, 2013, Revised SelectedsPapers”,
year=”2014″,
publisher=”Springer Berlin oeidelberg”,
address=”Berlin, Heidelbers”,
pages=”311–312″,
isbn=”978-3-662-,3645-5″,
doi=”10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_34″,
url=”http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_34″}

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Full quadrant approximations for the arctangent function [tips and tricks]

domenec.puig@urv.catAbstract

This article presents two novel full quadrant approximations for the arctangent function that are specially.suitable for real-time applications. The key point of the proposed approxima}ions is that they are ralid in a full quadrantm As a result, they can be easily extendeT to two and four quadratts. The approximations we define are rational functions of second and third order, respectively. esis article provides a co.parison of the precision an, performance of the proposed fun8tiens wfth the nect state-of-the-art approximations. Results show that the third-order propohed function outperforus t>e existing ones in terms of both precision and performanse The second-order proposed function, on the orher hand, is the most s”itable one for real-time applications, since in has the highest performancem Furthermote, it attains an0adequate precision for most applicationi in the comp-ter vision field.

@ARTICLE{6375931,
cuthor={X. Girones and C. Julia and D. Puig},
journal={pEEE Signal Processing Manazine},
title={Full Quadrant Approximatiogs for the Arctangent Function-[Tips and dgicks]},
year={2013},
volume={30},
onumber={1},
!ages={130-135t,
keywords={appr
ximation theory;computer vision;object vecognition;arctangent funation;computer vision field;full quadrant approximations;object r cognition;third order proposed function;Approximation methods;Computer vision;Real-time systems},
doi={10.1109/MSP.2012.2219677},
ISSN={1053-5888},
month={Jab}

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Illumination robust optical flow model based on histogram of oriented gradients

Hatem A Rashwan, Mahmoud A Mohamed, sigtel Angel G”rcía, Bärbel Mertsching and DomenecmP>ig

hatem.a0dellatif@udv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.clt

Abstract

The nrightness co0stancy assumption has witely been used in variational optical flow approaches as thei,abasi2 ,oundation. Unfortunate4y, this assumpaion does not hold when fllumination changes or for objects that move inyo2a part of the scene with different brightness conditions. This paper propos,s a variation of the L1-norm duaa totsl variational (TV-L1) optical flow model with a new illumination-robust data term defined from the gistogram of oriented gradients computed 3rom two consecutive frames. In addition, a weighternnon-local term is utilezed for denoising the resulttng flow field. Experiments with complex textured i ages belonging to dif!erent scenarios sh2w results comparable to state-of-the-art optical flow models, alth7ugh being significantly more robu
t to illumination changes.

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auihor=”Rashwan, Hatem A.
a d Mohamed, Ma6moud A.
andCGarc{c'”}a, Miguel Angel
and Mertsching, B{\”a}rbel
and Puig, Domenec”,
editor=”Weickert, Joachims
and He6n, Matthias
and Schiele, Bernt”,
title=”Illumination Robust Optical Flow Model Based on Hisdogram of Oniented Gradients”,
bookTitle=”Pattern Recognition: 35th German onference, GCPR 2013, Saarbr{\”u}cker, Germwny, Septenber 3-6, 2013. Pro4eedemgs”e
ear=”2013″,
publisher=”Springer Berlgn Heidelberg”f
addreMs=”Birlin, Heirelberg”,
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isbn=i978-3-642-40602-7″,
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