Adrian Stoica

I am a scientist and an entrepreneur, a dreamer and a citizen...
I look at the future, see things that I like, and I engage myself in making them reality
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Robotic Projects
I have contributed in several areas, listed chronologically:

Therotical contributions and demos

- Anthropomorhic robots learning by imitation (PhD work 1992-1995) one of the eearliest works in imitation

- Humanoid robots for space exploration

- Robotic scaffolds for tissue engineering and organ growth

- Brain interfaces

 Advanced Concepts
      - Robots and security
      - Cyborgs
      - Telepresence mediation

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Selected information:

PhD Thesis (1995), Motion Learning by Robot Apprentices: A Fuzzy neural Approach, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia - hardcopy can be obtained from  the University) (177 pages plus robot programming code (C/Matlab)) The earliest work on anthropomorhic/humanoid robot learning by imitation (to my knowledge so far:-), partly published in Conf papers 6-10 above)
See More under Scientific Contributions.

Robot fostering techniques for sensory-motor development of humanoid robots (2001)

Humanoids for Lunar and Planetary Surface Operations (2005)

From Bionics and Wetware to Cyborgs and Transhumans FBIT 2007 Keynote 

Robotic scaffolds for tissue engineering and organ growth (2009)
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  • Selected Humanoid Movies
    • 2007: Humanoid video for AAAI Video Competition (Combining videoclips from 2006 and 2005 videos) Windows Media Audio/Video   JPLHumanoidAAAI
    • 2006: Autonomous construction - skill acquisition, language guidance (various resoultions/formats) Windows Media Audio/Video    320x240, Ipod:  MPEG-4 ,QuickTime   320x240
    • 2005: Walking, fetching, transporting and object, dropping) RealPlayer .rm

  • Papers

1.      Stoica, A. “Humanoids for Lunar and Planetary Space Operations” – in Intelligence for Space Robotics, Edited by: Ayanna. Howard and Edward.W. Tunstel, TSI Press, 2006 (extended version of the paper 2005 IEEE-RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots, Japan)

2.      Stoica, A. “Learning Eye-arm Coordination Using Neural and Fuzzy Neural Techniques” – in H.N. Teodorescu, A. Kandel, L. Jain, (Eds.)  Soft Computing in Human-Related Sciences, CRC Press, 1999, (pp. 31-61)

3.      Stoica, A.  “Robot Fostering Techniques for Sensory-Motor Development of Humanoid Robots” In Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Humanoid Robots, 37(2-3) 2001. Elsevier Press

4.      Stoica, A.; Keymeulen, D.; Csaszar, A.; Quan Gan; Hidalgo, T.; Moore, J.; Newton, J.; Sandoval, S.; Jiajing Xu “Humanoids for lunar and planetary surface operations”, 2005 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Tsukuba, Japan Dec. 5, 2005 Page(s):345

5.      Stoica A.  “Robot Fostering Techniques for Sensory-Motor Development of Humanoid Robots” First IEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Sept 7-8, 2000, MIT.

6.      Wingate, M., and Stoica, A.  A step towards robot apprentices - visual learning, IASTED Int. Conference on Robotics and Manufacturing, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 19-22, 1996

7.      Stoica, A. and Jin, Y.  Learning eye-arm coordination using fuzzy neural networks. In Proc. of the Joint Conference in Information Science, Wrightsville Beach, NC , USA , 28-31 September, 1995

8.      Stoica, A.  Neurocontrol of visually guided anthropomorphic manipulators. In Proc. of the First International US-Mexico Conference on Neural Networks and Neurocontrol, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 5-15 September, 392-406, 1995

9.      Stoica, A.  Evolving creatures that can learn by imitation: apprentice behavior and its role in robot motor learning. Int. Conf on autonomous robots and artificial life PERAC'94 - From perception to action, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-9 September, 440-443,1994

10.  Stoica, A. On learning arm movements in behavior-based robots: towards the integration of visual and linguistic information in learning from humans. AI'93 - Machine Learning and Hybrid Systems Workshop, 6th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia, November 16, 20-24, 1993