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Bidirectional Learning of Handwriting Skill in Human-Robot Interaction


Abstract This paper describes the design of a robot agent and associated learning algorithms to help children in handwriting acquisition. The main issue lies in how to program a robot to obtain human-like handwriting and then exploit it to teach children. We propose to address this by integrating learning from demonstrations paradigm, which allows the robot to extract a task index from intuitive expert (e.g., adults) demonstrations. We present our work on the development of an algorithm, as well as its validation by learning compliant robotic writing motion from the extracted index. Also discussed is the synthesis of the learned task in the prospective work of transferring the task skill to users, especially in terms of learning by teaching. The undergoing work about the design of a sensor-embedded pen is introduced. This will be used as an intuitive interface for recording various handwriting related information in the interaction.
Year 2015
Keywords Reinforcement Learning;Social Robotic Companions;
Authors Hang Yin, Aude Billard, Ana Paiva
Booktitle Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI Pioneer Workshop.
Month Mar 2-5
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@inproceedings { yin15, abstract = {This paper describes the design of a robot agent and associated learning algorithms to help children in handwriting acquisition. The main issue lies in how to program a robot to obtain human-like handwriting and then exploit it to teach children. We propose to address this by integrating learning from demonstrations paradigm, which allows the robot to extract a task index from intuitive expert (e.g., adults) demonstrations. We present our work on the development of an algorithm, as well as its validation by learning compliant robotic writing motion from the extracted index. Also discussed is the synthesis of the learned task in the prospective work of transferring the task skill to users, especially in terms of learning by teaching. The undergoing work about the design of a sensor-embedded pen is introduced. This will be used as an intuitive interface for recording various handwriting related information in the interaction. }, booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI Pioneer Workshop.}, howpublished = {In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)}, keywords = {Reinforcement Learning;Social Robotic Companions;}, month = {Mar 2-5}, title = {Bidirectional Learning of Handwriting Skill in Human-Robot Interaction}, year = {2015}, author = {Hang Yin and Aude Billard and Ana Paiva} }

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