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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

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is the process of building behavioral models of a task from demonstrations provided by an expert. These models can be used e.g. for system control by generalizing the expert demonstrations to previously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-07 Adrian Šošić , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Heinz Koeppl

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) approaches empower end-users to teach robots novel tasks via demonstrations of the desired behaviors, democratizing access to robotics. However, current LfD frameworks are not capable of fast adaptation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Letian Chen , Sravan Jayanthi , Rohan Paleja , Daniel Martin , Viacheslav Zakharov , Matthew Gombolay

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

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

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a framework that allows lay users to easily program robots. However, the efficiency of robot learning and the robot's ability to generalize to task variations hinges upon the quality and quantity of the…

Learning for Demonstration (LfD) enables robots to acquire new skills by imitating expert demonstrations, allowing users to communicate their instructions in an intuitive manner. Recent progress in LfD often relies on kinesthetic teaching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Weiming Zhi , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Learning from Demonstration depends on a robot learner generalising its learned model to unseen conditions, as it is not feasible for a person to provide a demonstration set that accounts for all possible variations in non-trivial tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Aran Sena , Brendan Michael , Matthew Howard

Reinforcement learning often suffer from the sparse reward issue in real-world robotics problems. Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an effective way to eliminate this problem, which leverages collected expert data to aid online learning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yanjiang Guo , Jingyue Gao , Zheng Wu , Chengming Shi , Jianyu Chen

Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) allows robots to learn skills from human users, but its effectiveness can suffer due to sub-optimal teaching, especially from untrained demonstrators. Active LfD aims to improve this by letting robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Muhan Hou , Koen Hindriks , A. E. Eiben , Kim Baraka

Task Parametrized Gaussian Mixture Models (TP-GMM) are a sample-efficient method for learning object-centric robot manipulation tasks. However, there are several open challenges to applying TP-GMMs in the wild. In this work, we tackle three…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jan Ole von Hartz , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada , Joschka Boedecker

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) offers a promising paradigm for robot skill acquisition. Recent approaches attempt to extract manipulation commands directly from video demonstrations, yet face two critical challenges: (1) general video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Thanh-Tuan Tran , Haolan Zhang , Ziyan Gao , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Learning from demonstration (LfD) provides a fast, intuitive and efficient framework to program robot skills, which has gained growing interest both in research and industrial applications. Most complex manipulation tasks are long-term and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Meng Guo , Mathias Buerger

This article proposes a method for learning and robotic replication of dynamic collaborative tasks from offline videos. The objective is to extend the concept of learning from demonstration (LfD) to dynamic scenarios, benefiting from widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Francesco Iodice , Yuqiang Wu , Wansoo Kim , Fei Zhao , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

Generalizing robot trajectories from human demonstrations to new contexts remains a key challenge in Learning from Demonstration (LfD), particularly when only single-context demonstrations are available. We present a novel Gaussian Mixture…

We present a novel Learning from Demonstration (LfD) method, Deformable Manipulation from Demonstrations (DMfD), to solve deformable manipulation tasks using states or images as inputs, given expert demonstrations. Our method uses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Gautam Salhotra , I-Chun Arthur Liu , Marcus Dominguez-Kuhne , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is considered as an efficient way to transfer skills from humans to robots. Traditionally, LfD has been used to transfer Cartesian and joint positions and forces from human demonstrations. The traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Fares J. Abu-Dakka , Matteo Saveriano , Ville Kyrki

Many advanced Learning from Demonstration (LfD) methods consider the decomposition of complex, real-world tasks into simpler sub-tasks. By reusing the corresponding sub-policies within and between tasks, they provide training data for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Kyriacos Shiarlis , Markus Wulfmeier , Sasha Salter , Shimon Whiteson , Ingmar Posner

With growing access to versatile robotics, it is beneficial for end users to be able to teach robots tasks without needing to code a control policy. One possibility is to teach the robot through successful task executions. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Aleksandra Kalinowska , Ahalya Prabhakar , Kathleen Fitzsimons , Todd Murphey