Mimicking and Evaluating Human Motion to Improve the Imitation Skill of Children with Autism Through a Robot

In this paper, we report techniques for mimicking and evaluating the human motion in real time by a therapeutic humanoid robot to improve the imitation skill of children with autism. For realizing the mimicking technique, we propose a method of selecting key frames using a Q-Learning approach to remove the significant noises. Then, in order to evaluate human motion in real time, we introduce a method of cluster-based framework of Mixture...