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Data Mining for Social Robotics

Toward Autonomously Social Robots

  • Reviews the key recent research in social robotics, learning from demonstration and imitation
  • Offers a detailed explanation of key algorithms in change discovery, motif discovery and causality analysis
  • Illustrates in detail the design methodology for developing social robots using a novel developmental architecture that employs only unsupervised learning techniques to achieve autonomous sociability
  • Includes case studies in applying time-series analysis and data mining techniques to several problems in Human-Robot Interaction with an open-source MATLAB toolbox implementing the key algorithms
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
    Pages 1-31
  3. Time Series Mining

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Mining Time-Series Data

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 35-83
    3. Change Point Discovery

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 85-108
    4. Motif Discovery

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 109-148
    5. Causality Analysis

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 149-167
  4. Autonomously Social Robots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
    2. Introduction to Social Robotics

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 171-191
    3. Imitation and Social Robotics

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 193-206
    4. Theoretical Foundations

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 207-228
    5. The Embodied Interactive Control Architecture

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 229-244
    6. Interacting Naturally

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 245-253
    7. Interaction Learning Through Imitation

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 255-273
    8. Fluid Imitation

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 275-291
    9. Learning from Demonstration

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 293-317
    10. Conclusion

      • Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 319-323
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 325-328

About this book

This book explores an approach to social robotics based solely on autonomous unsupervised techniques and positions it within a structured exposition of related research in psychology, neuroscience, HRI, and data mining.  The authors present an autonomous and developmental approach that allows the robot to learn interactive behavior by imitating humans using algorithms from time-series analysis and machine learning.

The first part provides a comprehensive and structured introduction to time-series analysis, change point discovery, motif discovery and causality analysis focusing on possible applicability to HRI problems. Detailed explanations of all the algorithms involved are provided with open-source implementations in MATLAB enabling the reader to experiment with them. Imitation and simulation are the key technologies used to attain social behavior autonomously in the proposed approach.  Part two gives the reader a wide overview of research in these areas in psychology, and ethology. Based on this background, the authors discuss approaches to endow robots with the ability to autonomously learn how to be social. 

Data Mining for Social Robots will be essential reading for graduate students and practitioners interested in social and developmental robotics.

Reviews

“This comprehensive work focuses on human-robot interaction (HRI) using data mining and time series analysis. … In general, this book includes rich knowledge in social robot study using data mining tools. … It’s a nice book for graduate students and practitioners to dive deeper into HRI. Personally, this book led me to rethink the learning processes and interaction manners of humans, which is a rather interesting journey.” (Feng Yu, Computing Reviews, March, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Assiut University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yasser Mohammad

  • Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Toyoaki Nishida

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Data Mining for Social Robotics

  • Book Subtitle: Toward Autonomously Social Robots

  • Authors: Yasser Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida

  • Series Title: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25232-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25230-8Published: 10 February 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79755-7Published: 30 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25232-2Published: 08 January 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1610-3947

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8441

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 328

  • Number of Illustrations: 74 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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