Robot skills are motion or grasping primitives from which a complicated robot task consists. Skills can be directly learned and recognized by a technique named programming-bydemonstration. A human operator demonstrates a set of reference skills where his motions are recorded by a data-capturing system and modeled via fuzzy clustering and a Takagi–Sugeno modeling technique. The skill models use time instants as input and operator actions as outputs. In the recognition phase, the robot identi¯es the skill shown by the operator in a novel test demonstration. Finally, using the corresponding reference skill model the robot executes the recognized skill. Skill models can be updated online where drastic di®erences between learned and real world conditions are eliminated using the Broyden update formula. This method was extended for fuzzy models especially for time cluster models.
Funding Agencies:
HANDLE project
European Communitys Seventh Framework Programme