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Calinon, S., Bruno, D., & Caldwell, D. G. (2014). A task-parameterized probabilistic model with minimal intervention control. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Hong Kong, China.

Alizadeh, T., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2014). Learning from demonstrations with partially observable task parameters. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Hong Kong, China.

Bruno, D., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2014). Null Space Redundancy Learning for a Flexible Surgical Robot. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Hong Kong, China.

Calinon, S., Bruno, D., Malekzadeh, M. S., Nanayakkara, T., & Caldwell, D. G. (2014). Human-robot skills transfer interfaces for a flexible surgical robot. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.

Bruno, D., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2013). Bayesian nonparametric multi-optima policy search in reinforcement learning. In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Bellevue, Washington, USA.

Calinon, S., Kormushev, P., & Caldwell, D. G. (2013). Compliant skills acquisition and multi-optima policy search with EM-based reinforcement learning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61(4), 369––379.

Calinon, S. (2013). How to improve the generalization capability in imitation learning? In IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Semantics, Identification and Control of Robot-Human-Environment Interaction (pp. 1–4). Karlsruhe, Germany.

Rozo, L., Calinon, S., Caldwell, D. G., Jimenez, P., & Torras, C. (2013). Learning collaborative impedance-based robot behaviors. In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Bellevue, Washington, USA.

Calinon, S., Alizadeh, T., & Caldwell, D. G. (2013). On improving the extrapolation capability of task-parameterized movement models. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 610–616). Tokyo, Japan.

Kormushev, P., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2013). Reinforcement learning in robotics: Applications and real-world challenges. Robotics, 2(3), 122–148.

Malekzadeh, M. S., Bruno, D., Calinon, S., Nanayakkara, T., & Caldwell, D. G. (2013). Skills transfer across dissimilar robots by learning context-dependent rewards. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 1746–1751). Tokyo, Japan.

De Tommaso, D., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012a). A Robotized Projective Interface for Human-Robot Learning Scenarios. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 12(3), 96–106.

De Tommaso, D., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012b). A tangible interface for transferring skills using perception and projection capabilities in human-robot collaboration tasks. Intl Journal of Social Robotics, 4(4), 397–408.

Kormushev, P., Calinon, S., Ugurlu, B., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012). Challenges for the Policy Representation when Applying Reinforcement Learning in Robotics. In Proc. Intl Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 2819–2826). Brisbane, Australia.

Lee, S. H., Suh, I. H., Calinon, S., & Johansson, R. (2012). Learning Basis Skills by Autonomous Segmentation of Humanoid Motion Trajectories. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 112–119). Osaka, Japan.

Calinon, S., Pervez, A., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012). Multi-optima exploration with adaptive Gaussian mixture model. In Proc. Intl Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL-EpiRob) (pp. 1–6). San Diego, USA.

Zappi, V., Pistillo, A., Calinon, S., Brogni, A., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012). Music Expression with a Robot Manipulator Used as a Bidirectional Tangible Interface. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (SpringerOpen), Special Issue on Music Content Processing by and for Robots, 2012(2), 1–11.

Calinon, S., Li, Z., Alizadeh, T., Tsagarakis, N. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012a). Statistical dynamical systems for skills acquisition in humanoids. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 323–329). Osaka, Japan.

Calinon, S., Li, Z., Alizadeh, T., Tsagarakis, N. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012b). Teaching of bimanual skills in a compliant humanoid robot. In Intl Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR). Brussels, Belgium.

De Tommaso, D., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2012c). Using Compliant Robots as Projective Interfaces in Dynamic Environments. In Intl Conf. on Social Robotics (ICSR) (Vol. 7621, pp. 338––347). Springer-Verlag.

Pistillo, A., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2011). Bilateral Physical Interaction with a Robot Manipulator through a Weighted Combination of Flow Fields. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 3047–3052). San Francisco, CA, USA.

Kormushev, P., Ugurlu, B., Calinon, S., Tsagarakis, N., & Caldwell, D. G. (2011). Bipedal Walking Energy Minimization by Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Policy Parameterization. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 318–324). San Francisco, CA, USA.

Calinon, S., Pistillo, A., & Caldwell, D. G. (2011). Encoding the time and space constraints of a task in explicit-duration hidden Markov model. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 3413–3418). San Francisco, CA, USA.

Kormushev, P., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2011). Imitation Learning of Positional and Force Skills Demonstrated via Kinesthetic Teaching and Haptic Input. Advanced Robotics, 25(5), 581–603.

Kormushev, P., Nenchev, D. N., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2011). Upper-body Kinesthetic Teaching of a Free-standing Humanoid Robot. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 3970–3975). Shanghai, China.

Calinon, S., Sauser, E. L., D’halluin, F., Billard, A. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2010). A learning by imitation model handling multiple constraints and motion alternatives. In Intl Conf. on Cognitive Systems (CogSys). Zürich, Switzerland.

Kormushev, P., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2010a). Approaches for Learning Human-like Motor Skills which Require Variable Stiffness During Execution. In IEEE Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Workshop on Humanoid Robots Learning from Human Interaction. Nashville, TN, USA.

Calinon, S., Sauser, E. L., Billard, A. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2010). Evaluation of a probabilistic approach to learn and reproduce gestures by imitation. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 2671–2676). Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Calinon, S., D’halluin, F., Sauser, E. L., Caldwell, D. G., & Billard, A. G. (2010). Learning and reproduction of gestures by imitation: An approach based on Hidden Markov Model and Gaussian Mixture Regression. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 17(2), 44–54.

Kormushev, P., Calinon, S., Saegusa, R., & Metta, G. (2010). Learning the skill of archery by a humanoid robot iCub. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 417–423). Nashville, TN, USA.

Calinon, S., Sardellitti, I., & Caldwell, D. G. (2010). Learning-based control strategy for safe human-robot interaction exploiting task and robot redundancies. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 249–254). Taipei, Taiwan.

Kormushev, P., Calinon, S., & Caldwell, D. G. (2010b). Robot Motor Skill Coordination with EM-based Reinforcement Learning. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 3232–3237). Taipei, Taiwan.

Calinon, S., D’halluin, F., Caldwell, D. G., & Billard, A. G. (2009). Handling of multiple constraints and motion alternatives in a robot programming by demonstration framework. In Proc. IEEE-RAS Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 582–588). Paris, France.

Calinon, S., Evrard, P., Gribovskaya, E., Billard, A., & Kheddar, A. (2009). Learning collaborative manipulation tasks by demonstration using a haptic interface. In Proc. Intl Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) (pp. 1–6). Munich, Germany.

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

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2009). Statistical Learning by Imitation of Competing Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space. Advanced Robotics, 23(15), 2059–2076.

Weiss, A., Igelsboeck, J., Calinon, S., Billard, A., & Tscheligi, M. (2009). Teaching a Humanoid: A User Study on Learning by Demonstration with HOAP-3. In Proc. IEEE Intl Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man) (pp. 147–152). Toyama, Japan.

Evrard, P., Gribovskaya, E., Calinon, S., Billard, A., & Kheddar, A. (2009). Teaching Physical Collaborative Tasks: Object-Lifting Case Study with a Humanoid. In Proc. IEEE-RAS Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 399–404). Paris, France.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2008a). A framework integrating statistical and social cues to teach a humanoid robot new skills. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots. Pasadena, CA, USA.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2008b). A Probabilistic Programming by Demonstration Framework Handling Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 367–372). Nice, France.

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

Billard, A., Calinon, S., Dillmann, R., & Schaal, S. (2008). Robot Programming by Demonstration. In B. Siciliano & O. Khatib (Eds.), Handbook of Robotics (pp. 1371–1394). Secaucus, NJ, USA: Springer.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2007a). Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration. In Proc. IEEE Intl Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man) (pp. 702–707). Jeju, Korea.

Calinon, S. (2007). Continuous Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Programming by Demonstration Framework (PhD thesis). Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2007b). Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. In Proc. ACM/IEEE Intl Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 255–262). Arlington, VA, USA.

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

Calinon, S., Guenter, F., & Billard, A. (2007). On Learning, Representing and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, 37(2), 286–298.

Guenter, F., Hersch, M., Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2007). Reinforcement Learning for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements. Advanced Robotics, 21(13), 1521–1544.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2007d). What is the Teacher’s Role in Robot Programming by Demonstration? - Toward Benchmarks for Improved Learning. Interaction Studies, 8(3), 441–464.

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

Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S., & Billard, A. G. (2006). Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks. In Proc. IEEE-RAS Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 444–449). Genova, Italy.

Calinon, S., Guenter, F., & Billard, A. (2006). On Learning the Statistical Representation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 2978–2983). Orlando, Florida, USA.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2006). Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and Reproduce Social Cues. In Proc. IEEE Intl Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man) (pp. 346–351). Hatfield, UK.

Calinon, S., Epiney, J., & Billard, A. (2005). A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits. In Proc. IEEE-RAS Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 161–166). Tsukuba, Japan.

Calinon, S., Guenter, F., & Billard, A. (2005). Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 299–304). Barcelona, Spain.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2005). Recognition and Reproduction of Gestures using a Probabilistic Framework combining PCA, ICA and HMM. In Proc. Intl Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML) (pp. 105–112). Bonn, Germany.

Billard, A., Epars, Y., Calinon, S., Cheng, G., & Schaal, S. (2004). Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 47(2-3), 69–77.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2004). Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition Model for a Humanoid Robot. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 2769–2774). Sendai, Japan.

Calinon, S., & Billard, A. (2003). PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots. In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). Karlsruhe, Germany.