Adaptive motion generation with exploring behavior for service robots

The authors develop an interface system for service robots. In order to assure adaptability to lightly structured environments and easy programming of new tasks, we propose an automatic adaptive motion generation methodology and introduce it in the context of an interface system for an assistive rehabilitation robot. The implementation of the robot interface system using VRML and Java shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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