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Teaching robots new skills quickly and conveniently is crucial for the broader adoption of robotic systems. In this work, we address the problem of one-shot imitation from a single human demonstration, given by an RGB-D video recording. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Nick Heppert , Max Argus , Tim Welschehold , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Humans have internal models of robots (like their physical capabilities), the world (like what will happen next), and their tasks (like a preferred goal). However, human internal models are not always perfect: for example, it is easy to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ran Tian , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Anca Dragan , Andrea Bajcsy

Advances in robot learning have enabled robots to generate skills for a variety of tasks. Yet, robot learning is typically sample inefficient, struggles to learn from data sources exhibiting varied behaviors, and does not naturally…

In robotics, a common challenge in imitation learning is the mismatch between training and deployment conditions, caused, for example, by environmental changes or imperfect observation and control. When a robot follows a nominal trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ziyi Xu , Cem Bilaloglu , Yiming Li , Sylvain Calinon

The transformation towards intelligence in various industries is creating more demand for intelligent and flexible products. In the field of robotics, learning-based methods are increasingly being applied, with the purpose of training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Xinjie Liu

Imitation Learning (IL) is an effective framework to learn visuomotor skills from offline demonstration data. However, IL methods often fail to generalize to new scene configurations not covered by training data. On the other hand, humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Chen Wang , Rui Wang , Ajay Mandlekar , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese , Danfei Xu

In hazardous environments like nuclear facilities, robotic systems are essential for executing tasks that would otherwise expose humans to dangerous radiation levels, which pose severe health risks and can be fatal. However, many operations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Abdullah Alharthi , Ozan Tokatli , Erwin Lopez , Guido Herrmann

Robotic-assisted procedures offer enhanced precision, but while fully autonomous systems are limited in task knowledge, difficulties in modeling unstructured environments, and generalisation abilities, fully manual teleoperated systems also…

The goal of learning from demonstrations is to learn a policy for an agent (imitator) by mimicking the behavior in the demonstrations. Prior works on learning from demonstrations assume that the demonstrations are collected by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhangjie Cao , Yilun Hao , Mengxi Li , Dorsa Sadigh

Imitation learning has been applied to mimic the operation of a human cameraman in several autonomous cinematography systems. To imitate different filming styles, existing methods train multiple models, where each model handles a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Chong Huang , Yuanjie Dang , Peng Chen , Xin Yang , Kwang-Ting , Cheng

Imitation learning is one of the methods for reproducing human demonstration adaptively in robots. So far, it has been found that generalization ability of the imitation learning enables the robots to perform tasks adaptably in untrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kento Kawaharazuka , Yoichiro Kawamura , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

We present a novel method for collaborative robots (cobots) to learn manipulation tasks and perform them in a human-like manner. Our method falls under the learn-from-observation (LfO) paradigm, where robots learn to perform tasks by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ehsan Asali , Prashant Doshi

Learning fine-grained movements is a challenging topic in robotics, particularly in the context of robotic hands. One specific instance of this challenge is the acquisition of fingerspelling sign language in robots. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

One of the most efficient ways for a learning-based robotic arm to learn to process complex tasks as human, is to directly learn from observing how human complete those tasks, and then imitate. Our idea is based on success of Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Cheng Xuan , Zhiqiang Tang , Jinxin Xu

Teleoperation serves as a powerful method for collecting on-robot data essential for robot learning from demonstrations. The intuitiveness and ease of use of the teleoperation system are crucial for ensuring high-quality, diverse, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xuxin Cheng , Jialong Li , Shiqi Yang , Ge Yang , Xiaolong Wang

Acquiring physically plausible motor skills across diverse and unconventional morphologies-including humanoid robots, quadrupeds, and animals-is essential for advancing character simulation and robotics. Traditional methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Mert Albaba , Chenhao Li , Markos Diomataris , Omid Taheri , Andreas Krause , Michael Black

To solve tasks in complex environments, robots need to learn from experience. Deep reinforcement learning is a common approach to robot learning but requires a large amount of trial and error to learn, limiting its deployment in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Philipp Wu , Alejandro Escontrela , Danijar Hafner , Ken Goldberg , Pieter Abbeel

Humanoid robots could benefit from using their upper bodies for support contacts, enhancing their workspace, stability, and ability to perform contact-rich and pushing tasks. In this paper, we propose a unified approach that combines an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Quentin Rouxel , Andrea Ferrari , Serena Ivaldi , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

We examine the problem of learning sequential tasks from a single visual demonstration. A key challenge arises when demonstrations are temporally misaligned due to variations in timing, differences in embodiment, or inconsistencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 William Huey , Huaxiaoyue Wang , Anne Wu , Yoav Artzi , Sanjiban Choudhury

In recent years, a myriad of advanced results have been reported in the community of imitation learning, ranging from parametric to non-parametric, probabilistic to non-probabilistic and Bayesian to frequentist approaches. Meanwhile, ample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Yanlong Huang , Darwin G. Caldwell