Learning Human-like Hand Reaching for Human-Robot Handshaking

Vignesh Prasad,Ruth Stock-Homburg,Jan Peters,Vignesh Prasad,Ruth Stock-Homburg,Jan Peters

One of the first and foremost non-verbal interactions that humans perform is a handshake. It has an impact on first impressions as touch can convey complex emotions. This makes handshaking an important skill for the repertoire of a social robot. In this paper, we present a novel framework for learning reaching behaviours for humanrobot handshaking behaviours for humanoid robots solely using third-...