Motor development in humans and robots

Funded (in part) by EPSRC, Child Health Research Appeal Trust, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (Kakenhi).

Degrees of freedom problem

Berthouze, L., & Goldfield, E. C. (2008). Assembly, tuning, and transfer of action systems in infants and robots. Infant and Child Development, 17(1), 25–42. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.542

Meyer, F., Spröwitz, A., & Berthouze, L. (2006). Passive compliance for a RC servo-controlled bouncing robot. Advanced Robotics, 20(8), 953–961. https://doi.org/10.1163/156855306777951429

Berthouze, L., & Lungarella, M. (2004). Motor Skill Acquisition Under Environmental Perturbations: On the Necessity of Alternate Freezing and Freeing of Degrees of Freedom. Adaptive Behavior, 12(1), 47–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/105971230401200104

Lungarella, M., & Berthouze, L. (2002). Adaptivity via alternate freeing and freezing of degrees of freedom. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2002. ICONIP ’02., 1, 482–487. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICONIP.2002.1202217

Kuniyoshi, Y., & Berthouze, L. (1998). Neural learning of embodied interaction dynamics. Neural Networks: The Official Journal of the International Neural Network Society, 11(7-8), 1259–1276.

Kinematics

Berthouze, L., & Mayston, M. (2011). Design and validation of surface-marker clusters for the quantification of joint rotations in general movements in early infancy. Journal of Biomechanics, 44(6), 1212–1215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.01.016

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