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The emergence of vision catalysed a pivotal evolutionary advancement, enabling organisms not only to perceive but also to interact intelligently with their environment. This transformation is mirrored by the evolution of robotic systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuhang Hu , Jiong Lin , Hod Lipson

Today robots must be safe, versatile, and user-friendly to operate in unstructured and human-populated environments. Dynamical system-based imitation learning enables robots to perform complex tasks stably and without explicit programming,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sayantan Auddy , Antonio Paolillo , Justus Piater , Matteo Saveriano

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

We propose an imitation learning system for autonomous driving in urban traffic with interactions. We train a Behavioral Cloning~(BC) policy to imitate driving behavior collected from the real urban traffic, and apply the data aggregation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zhao-Heng Yin , Chenran Li , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Imitation learning is a popular paradigm to teach robots new tasks, but collecting robot demonstrations through teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching is tedious and time-consuming. In contrast, directly demonstrating a task using our human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nick Heppert , Minh Quang Nguyen , Abhinav Valada

A generalist robot equipped with learned skills must be able to perform many tasks in many different environments. However, zero-shot generalization to new settings is not always possible. When the robot encounters a new environment or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alexander Khazatsky , Ashvin Nair , Daniel Jing , Sergey Levine

Visual imitation learning is effective for robots to learn versatile tasks. However, many existing methods rely on behavior cloning with supervised historical trajectories, limiting their 3D spatial and 4D spatiotemporal awareness.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhenyang Liu , Yikai Wang , Kuanning Wang , Longfei Liang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

In autonomous driving, end-to-end methods utilizing Imitation Learning (IL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are becoming more and more common. However, they do not involve explicit reasoning like classic robotics workflow and planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Mingyan Zhou , Biao Wang , Tian Tan , Xiatao Sun

Imitation learning of robot policies from few demonstrations is crucial in open-ended applications. We propose a new method, Interaction Warping, for learning SE(3) robotic manipulation policies from a single demonstration. We infer the 3D…

Behavior cloning has shown promise for robot manipulation, but real-world demonstrations are costly to acquire at scale. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, particularly with advances in automated demonstration generation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuo Cheng , Liqian Ma , Zhenyang Chen , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Danfei Xu

Learned dynamics models combined with both planning and policy learning algorithms have shown promise in enabling artificial agents to learn to perform many diverse tasks with limited supervision. However, one of the fundamental challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Suraj Nair , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

Recently, model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have been shown to solve challenging problems by learning from extensive interaction with the environment. A significant issue with transferring this success to the robotics domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Jake Bruce , Niko Suenderhauf , Piotr Mirowski , Raia Hadsell , Michael Milford

Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (i.e., motion trajectories and perceptual data). No adequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Stefan Lee , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

For a robot to learn a good policy, it often requires expensive equipment (such as sophisticated sensors) and a prepared training environment conducive to learning. However, it is seldom possible to perfectly equip robots for economic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Hélène Plisnier , Denis Steckelmacher , Diederik Roijers , Ann Nowé

Behavior cloning (BC) is a popular supervised imitation learning method in the societies of robotics, autonomous driving, etc., wherein complex skills can be learned by direct imitation from expert demonstrations. Despite its rapid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Wensheng Liang , Jun Xie , Zhicheng Wang , Jianwei Tan , Xiaoguang Ma

In this paper, we present an approach for learning collision-free robot trajectories in the presence of moving obstacles. As a first step, we train a backup policy to generate evasive movements from arbitrary initial robot states using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jonas Kiemel , Ludovic Righetti , Torsten Kröger , Tamim Asfour

Continual learning for reinforcement learning agents remains a significant challenge, particularly in preserving and leveraging existing information without an external signal to indicate changes in tasks or environments. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zeki Doruk Erden , Donia Gasmi , Boi Faltings

Visual search of relevant targets in the environment is a crucial robot skill. We propose a preliminary framework for the execution monitor of a robot task, taking care of the robot attitude to visually searching the environment for targets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Lorenzo Mauro , Francesco Puja , Simone Grazioso , Valsamis Ntouskos , Marta Sanzari , Edoardo Alati , Fiora Pirri

Despite tremendous progress in dexterous manipulation, current visuomotor policies remain fundamentally limited by two challenges: they struggle to generalize under perceptual or behavioral distribution shifts, and their performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junbang Liang , Pavel Tokmakov , Ruoshi Liu , Sruthi Sudhakar , Paarth Shah , Rares Ambrus , Carl Vondrick

Imitation learning is an effective approach for autonomous systems to acquire control policies when an explicit reward function is unavailable, using supervision provided as demonstrations from an expert, typically a human operator.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 YuXuan Liu , Abhishek Gupta , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine