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
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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
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