List of publications

Book

Calinon, S. (2009). Robot Programming by Demonstration: A Probabilistic Approach. EPFL/CRC Press.

Book chapters

Billard, A., Calinon, S., Dillmann R. and Schaal, S. (2008). Robot Programming by Demonstration. Siciliano, B. and Khatib, O. (eds.). Handbook of Robotics, pp. 1371-1394. Springer.
(book winner of two PROSE awards)

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007). Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C.L. (eds.). Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions, pp. 153-177. Cambridge University Press.

International journals

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2009). Statistical Learning by Imitation of Competing Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space. RSJ Advanced Robotics, 23, 2059-2076.

Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008). Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24:6, 1463-1467.

Guenter, F., Hersch, M., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007). Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements. RSJ Advanced Robotics, Special Issue on Imitative Robots, 21:13, 1521-1544.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007). What is the Teacher's Role in Robot Programming by Demonstration? - Toward Benchmarks for Improved Learning. Interaction Studies, Special Issue on Psychological Benchmarks in Human-Robot Interaction, 8:3, 441-464.

Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2007). On Learning, Representing and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Special issue on robot learning by observation, demonstration and imitation, 37:2, 286-298.

Billard, A., Calinon, S. and Guenter, F. (2006). Discriminative and Adaptive Imitation in Uni-Manual and Bi-Manual Tasks. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54:5, 370-384.

Billard, A., Epars, Y., Calinon, S., Cheng, G. and Schaal, S. (2004). Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue: Robot Learning from Demonstration, 47:2-3, 69-77.

International conferences

Calinon, S., D'halluin, F., Caldwell, D.G. and Billard, A. (2009). Handling of multiple constraints and motion alternatives in a robot programming by demonstration framework. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Paris, France.

Evrard, P., Gribovskaya, E., Calinon, S., Billard, A. and Kheddar, A. (2009). Teaching physical collaborative tasks: Object-lifting case study with a humanoid. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Paris, France.

Weiss, A., Igelsboeck, J., Calinon, S., Billard, A. and Tscheligi, M. (2009). Teaching a Humanoid: A User Study with Hoap3 on Learning by Demonstration. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man).

Calinon, S., Evrard, P., Gribovskaya, E., Billard A. and Kheddar, A. (2009). Learning collaborative manipulation tasks by demonstration using a haptic interface. In Proceedings of the Intl Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR).

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008). A Probabilistic Programming by Demonstration Framework Handling Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 367-372.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008). A framework integrating statistical and social cues to teach a humanoid robot new skills. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007). Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 702-707.
(RO-MAN'07 best paper award)

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007). Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 255-262.

Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2006). Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 444-449.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2006). Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and Reproduce Social Cues. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 346-351.

Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2006). On Learning the Statistical Representation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2978-2983.

Calinon, S., Epiney, J. and Billard, A. (2005). A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 161-166.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2005). Recognition and Reproduction of Gestures using a Probabilistic Framework combining PCA, ICA and HMM. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pp. 105-112.

Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2005). Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 299-304.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2004). Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition Model for a Humanoid Robot. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2769-2774.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2003). PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).

Abstracts and posters

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2005). Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (AISB), Hatfield, UK.

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2004). Gesture Recognition and Reproduction for a Humanoid Robot using Hidden Markov Models. AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms.

PhD/MSc thesis

Calinon, S. (2007). Continuous Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Programming by Demonstration Framework. PhD thesis, Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Calinon, S. (2003). PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots using Speech and Vision Processing. MSc thesis, Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Peer-reviewed videos

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007). Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

Hersch, M., Guenter, F. and Calinon, S. (2006). Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).

Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2005). Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2005). A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2004). Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition Model for a Humanoid Robot. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2003). PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).