Multitask Reinforcement Learning on the Distribution of MDPs (in Japanese)
IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol.123-C No.5 p.1004-1011
May 2003 [pdf, 260K]
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Entertainment Robots
Early Childhood Education
Development and Learning
Robot Ethics
Toshimitsu Takahashi, Masahiko Morita, and Fumihide Tanaka.
Evaluation of a Tricycle-style Teleoperational Interface for Children: a Comparative Experiment with a Video Game Controller.
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2012),
p.334-338, Paris, France, September 2012. [pdf, 1.67MB]
Shizuko Matsuzoe and Fumihide Tanaka.
How Smartly Should Robots Behave?: Comparative Investigation on the Learning Ability of a Care-Receiving Robot.
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2012),
p.339-344, Paris, France, September 2012. [pdf, 489K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Toshimitsu Takahashi.
A Tricycle-style Teleoperational Interface that Remotely Controls a Robot for Classroom Children.
Proceedings of 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Late-Breaking Reports (LBR),
p.255-256, Boston, USA, March 2012. [pdf, 543K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Shizuko Matsuzoe.
Learning Verbs by Teaching a Care-Receiving Robot by Children: an Experimental Report.
Proceedings of 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Late-Breaking Reports (LBR),
p.253-254, Boston, USA, March 2012. [pdf, 509K]
Morana Alac, Javier R. Movellan, and Fumihide Tanaka.
When a robot is social: Spatial arrangements and multimodal semiotic engagement in the practice of social robotics.
Social Studies of Science, Vol.41 No.6 p.893-926, December 2011. [Publisher's Website]
Toshimitsu Takahashi, Masahiko Morita, and Fumihide Tanaka.
Operational Feedback Considering Social Contingency for Robot Teleoperation.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2011),
p.234-239, Phuket, Thailand, December 2011. [pdf, 1.26MB]
Vincent Berenz, Mark Herink, Fumihide Tanaka, and Kenji Suzuki.
TDM: A Software Framework for Elegant and Rapid Development of Autonomous Behaviors for Humanoid Robots.
Proceedings of 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2011),
p.179-186, Bled, Slovenia, October 2011. [IEEE Xplore page]
Madhumita Ghosh and Fumihide Tanaka.
The Impact of Different Competence Levels of Care-Receiving Robot on Children.
Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011),
p.2409-2415, San Francisco, USA, September 2011. [pdf, 791K]
Vincent Berenz, Fumihide Tanaka, and Kenji Suzuki.
Autonomous Battery Management for Mobile Robots Based on Risk and Gain Assessment.
Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol.37 No.3 p.217-237, 2011. [pdf is available here, 4.5MB]
Fumihide Tanaka and Madhumita Ghosh.
The Implementation of Care-Receiving Robot at an English Learning School for Children.
Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), Late-Breaking Reports (LBR),
p.265-266, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011. [pdf, 382K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Toshimitsu Takahashi.
Linking Children by Telerobotics: Experimental Field and the First Target.
Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), Late-Breaking Reports (LBR),
p.267-268, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011. [pdf, 480K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Takeshi Kimura.
Care-receiving robot as a tool of teachers in child education.
Interaction Studies, Vol.11 No.2 p.263-268, 2010. [final draft pdf, 90K, John Benjamins Publishing Company Website]
Hiroshi Kawata, Fumihide Tanaka, Atsuo Suemitsu, and Masahiko Morita.
Practical surface EMG pattern classification by using a selective desensitization neural network.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2010),
Part II, p.42-49, Sydney, Australia, November 2010. [pdf, 951K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Tomoyuki Noda.
Telerobotics connecting classrooms between Japan and US: a project overview.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2010),
p.197-198, Viareggio, Italy, September 2010. [pdf, 171K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Takeshi Kimura
The use of robots in early education: a scenario based on ethical consideration
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2009), p.558-560
Toyama, Japan, September 2009 [pdf, 279K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Javier R. Movellan
A barebones communicative robot based on social contingency and infomax control
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2008), p.33-34
Munich, Germany, August 2008 [pdf, 93K]
Fumihide Tanaka, Aaron Cicourel, and Javier R. Movellan
Socialization between Toddlers and Robots at an Early Childhood Education Center
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS)
Vol.104 No.46 p.17954-17958, November 2007 [pdf, 1.05M]
[The movie files referred in this paper are also available at the PNAS web:
here]
Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Ian R. Fasel, Cynthia Taylor, Paul Ruvolo and Micah Eckhardt
The RUBI Project: A Progress Report
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Second International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007), p.333-339
Arlington, U.S.A., March 2007 [pdf, 1.7M]
Fumihide Tanaka and Javier R. Movellan
A Way of Implementing an Internal Reward for Autonomous Robots
International Workshop on Synergistic Intelligence Dynamics at Humanoids 2006
Genova, Italy, December 2006 [pdf, 14.8K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Javier R. Movellan
Behavior Analysis of Children's Touch on a Small Humanoid Robot: Long-term Observation at a Daily Classroom over Three Months
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006), p.753-756
Hatfield, United Kingdom, September 2006 [pdf, 254K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Javier R. Movellan
The RUBI Project: Designing Everyday Robots by Immersion
Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2006)
Bloomington, U.S.A., June 2006
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenberry and Kazuki Aisaka
Daily HRI Evaluation at a Classroom Environment: Reports from Dance Interaction Experiments
Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), p.3-9
Salt Lake City, U.S.A., March 2006 [pdf, 884K]
Fumihide Tanaka, Bret Fortenberry, Kazuki Aisaka and Javier R. Movellan
Developing Dance Interaction between QRIO and Toddlers in a Classroom Environment: Plans for the First Steps
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2005), p.223-228
Nashville, U.S.A., August 2005 [pdf, 744K]
(Best Paper Award)
Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Bret Fortenberry and Kazuki Aisaka
The RUBI/QRIO Project: Origins, Principles, and First Steps
Proceedings of 2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2005), p.80-86
Osaka, Japan, July 2005 [pdf, 765K]
Fumihide Tanaka, Bret Fortenberry, Kazuki Aisaka and Javier R. Movellan
Plans for Developing Real-time Dance Interaction between QRIO and Toddlers in a Classroom Environment
Proceedings of 2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2005), p.142-147
Osaka, Japan, July 2005 [pdf, 477K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Hirotaka Suzuki
Dance Interaction with QRIO: A Case Study for Non-boring Interaction by Using an Entrainment Ensemble Model
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2004), p.419-424
Kurashiki, Japan, September 2004 [pdf, 471K]
Fumihide Tanaka, Kuniaki Noda, Tsutomu Sawada and Masahiro Fujita
Associated Emotion and its Expression in an Entertainment Robot QRIO
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2004), p.499-504
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3166, Springer 2004
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2004 [pdf, 914K] Copyright: Springer-Verlag
Fumihide Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamura
Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Value Statistics
Proceedings of the 2003 SICE Symposium on Systems and Information (SSI 2003)
Sendai, Japan, November 2003 [pdf, 169K]
(Systems & Information Young Author's Award)
Fumihide Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamura
Exploiting Value Statistics for Similar Continuing Tasks
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2003), p.271-276
Millbrae, U.S.A., October 2003 [pdf, 309K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamura
Multitask Reinforcement Learning on the Distribution of MDPs
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA 2003), p.1108-1113
Kobe, Japan, July 2003 [pdf, 341K]
Fumihide Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamura
Multitask Reinforcement Learning on the Distribution of MDPs (in Japanese)
IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol.123-C No.5 p.1004-1011
May 2003 [pdf, 260K]
Fumihide Tanaka
Adaptive Agent Technologies for Future House Architecture (in Japanese)
Architectural Institute of Japan, a Research Paper Competition, May 2002 [pdf, 125K]
(A Prize Essay Paper)
Fumihide Tanaka
Skill Knowledge Assimilation by Reinforcement Learning Agent
6th SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium in IJCAI-2001
Seattle, U.S.A., August 2001
Fumihide Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamura
Reinforcement Learning Agent that is Capable of 2-dimensional Multitask Learning (in Japanese)
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2001)
Matsue, Japan, May 2001 [pdf, 67K]
(Best Paper Award)
Fumihide Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamura
An Approach to Lifelong Reinforcement Learning through Multiple Environments
Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Learning Robots (EWLR-6), p.93-99
Brighton, U.K., August 1997 [pdf, 171K]