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Utilizing a robot in a new application requires the robot to be programmed at each time. To reduce such programmings efforts, we have been developing ``Learning-from-observation (LfO)'' that automatically generates robot programs by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Katsushi Ikeuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehiro

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) empowers robots to acquire new skills through human demonstrations, making it feasible for everyday users to teach robots. However, the success of learning and generalization heavily depends on the quality…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Maram Sakr , H. F. Machiel Van der Loos , Dana Kulic , Elizabeth Croft

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) algorithms enable humans to teach new skills to robots through demonstrations. The learned skills can be robustly reproduced from the identical or near boundary conditions (e.g., initial point). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

In many contact-rich tasks, force sensing plays an essential role in adapting the motion to the physical properties of the manipulated object. To enable robots to capture the underlying distribution of object properties necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Marina Y. Aoyama , João Moura , Namiko Saito , Sethu Vijayakumar

A challenge in robot grasping is to achieve task-grasping which is to select a grasp that is advantageous to the success of tasks before and after grasps. One of the frameworks to address this difficulty is Learning-from-Observation (LfO),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daichi Saito , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Jun Takamatsu , Hideki Koike , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Several methods exist for teaching robots, with one of the most prominent being Learning from Demonstration (LfD). Many LfD representations can be formulated as constrained optimization problems. We propose a novel convex formulation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

Learning from demonstrations (LfD) enables humans to easily teach collaborative robots (cobots) new motions that can be generalized to new task configurations without retraining. However, state-of-the-art LfD methods require manually tuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Lorenzo Panchetti , Jianhao Zheng , Mohamed Bouri , Malcolm Mielle

Over the past few years, there have been numerous works towards advancing the generalization capability of robots, among which learning from demonstrations (LfD) has drawn much attention by virtue of its user-friendly and data-efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Shaokang Wu , Yijin Wang , Yanlong Huang

Learning from demonstration (LfD) provides a convenient means to equip robots with dexterous skills when demonstration can be obtained in robot intrinsic coordinates. However, the problem of compounding errors in long and complex skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 T. Baturhan Akbulut , G. Tuba C. Girgin , Arash Mehrabi , Minoru Asada , Emre Ugur , Erhan Oztop

Methods for learning from demonstration (LfD) have shown success in acquiring behavior policies by imitating a user. However, even for a single task, LfD may require numerous demonstrations. For versatile agents that must learn many tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jorge A. Mendez , Shashank Shivkumar , Eric Eaton

With the fast improvement of machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to automate human tasks in different areas. However, training such agents is difficult and restricted to expert users. Moreover, it is mostly limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 André Correia , Luís A. Alexandre

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a promising approach to enable Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) to acquire complex skills and behaviors. However, the intricate interactions and coordination challenges in MRS pose significant hurdles for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Vishnunandan L. N. Venkatesh , Byung-Cheol Min

Learning from demonstration (LfD) techniques seek to enable novice users to teach robots novel tasks in the real world. However, prior work has shown that robot-centric LfD approaches, such as Dataset Aggregation (DAgger), do not perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mariah L. Schrum , Erin Hedlund , Matthew C. Gombolay

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) stands as an efficient framework for imparting human-like skills to robots. Nevertheless, designing an LfD framework capable of seamlessly imitating, generalizing, and reacting to disturbances for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yan Zhang , Teng Xue , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

Demonstration-guided reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for learning complex behaviors by leveraging both reward feedback and a set of target task demonstrations. Prior approaches for demonstration-guided RL treat every new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Karl Pertsch , Youngwoon Lee , Yue Wu , Joseph J. Lim

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approaches empower end-users to teach robots novel tasks via demonstrations of the desired behaviors, democratizing access to robotics. A key challenge in LfD research is that users tend to provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Sravan Jayanthi , Letian Chen , Matthew Gombolay

Generating context-adaptive manipulation and grasping actions is a challenging problem in robotics. Classical planning and control algorithms tend to be inflexible with regard to parameterization by external variables such as object shapes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Tim R. Winter , Ashok M. Sundaram , Werner Friedl , Maximo A. Roa , Freek Stulp , João Silvério

The goal of programmatic Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is to learn a policy in a programming language that can be used to control a robot's behavior from a set of user demonstrations. This paper presents a new programmatic LfD algorithm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Noah Patton , Kia Rahmani , Meghana Missula , Joydeep Biswas , Işil Dillig

Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) seeks to democratize robotics by enabling non-roboticist end-users to teach robots to perform a task by providing a human demonstration. However, modern LfD techniques, e.g. inverse reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Letian Chen , Rohan Paleja , Matthew Gombolay