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Finding an efficient way to adapt robot trajectory is a priority to improve overall performance of robots. One approach for trajectory planning is through transferring human-like skills to robots by Learning from Demonstrations (LfD). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jayden Hong , Zengjie Zhang , Amir M. Soufi Enayati , Homayoun Najjaran

Behavioral cloning, or more broadly, learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a priomising direction for robot policy learning in complex scenarios. Albeit being straightforward to implement and data-efficient, behavioral cloning has its own…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Carl Qi , Edward Sun , Harry Zhang

Automating robotic surgery via learning from demonstration (LfD) techniques is extremely challenging. This is because surgical tasks often involve sequential decision-making processes with complex interactions of physical objects and have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zohre Karimi , Shing-Hei Ho , Bao Thach , Alan Kuntz , Daniel S. Brown

We present a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) framework that achieves one-shot generalization in multi-stage, contact-rich manipulation tasks. Central to our approach is the utilization of environmental constraints as the inductive bias.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Li , Oliver Brock

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

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a useful paradigm for training policies that solve tasks involving complex motions, such as those encountered in robotic manipulation. In practice, the successful application of LfD requires overcoming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Peter David Fagan , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Some Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) methods handle small mismatches in the action spaces of the teacher and student. Here we address the case where the teacher's morphology is substantially different from that of the student. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Gautam Salhotra , I-Chun Arthur Liu , Gaurav Sukhatme

Learning from Demonstrations, the field that proposes to learn robot behavior models from data, is gaining popularity with the emergence of deep generative models. Although the problem has been studied for years under names such as…

Scientific and engineering problems often require the use of artificial intelligence to aid understanding and the search for promising designs. While Gaussian processes (GP) stand out as easy-to-use and interpretable learners, they have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Liwei Wang , Suraj Yerramilli , Akshay Iyer , Daniel Apley , Ping Zhu , Wei Chen

We propose a method for learning constraints represented as Gaussian processes (GPs) from locally-optimal demonstrations. Our approach uses the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions to determine where on the demonstrations the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Glen Chou , Hao Wang , Dmitry Berenson

Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have enabled robot agents to accomplish complex tasks. Reward Machines (RMs) enhance RL's capability to train policies over extended time horizons by structuring high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

For assistive robots and virtual agents to achieve ubiquity, machines will need to anticipate the needs of their human counterparts. The field of Learning from Demonstration (LfD) has sought to enable machines to infer predictive models of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Rohan Paleja , Matthew Gombolay

Learning robust and generalizable manipulation skills from demonstrations remains a key challenge in robotics, with broad applications in industrial automation and service robotics. While recent imitation learning methods have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yu Ren , Yang Cong , Ronghan Chen , Jiahao Long

Learning from demonstrations is a promising paradigm for transferring knowledge to robots. However, learning mobile manipulation tasks directly from a human teacher is a complex problem as it requires learning models of both the overall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Tim Welschehold , Nichola Abdo , Christian Dornhege , Wolfram Burgard

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

Dynamical System (DS) based Learning from Demonstration (LfD) allows learning of reactive motion policies with stability and convergence guarantees from a few trajectories. Yet, current DS learning techniques lack the flexibility to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tianyu Li , Nadia Figueroa

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

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

Humans generally teach their fellow collaborators to perform tasks through a small number of demonstrations. The learnt task is corrected or extended to meet specific task goals by means of coaching. Adopting a similar framework for…

Learning from human video demonstrations offers a scalable alternative to teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching, but poses challenges for robot manipulators due to embodiment differences and joint feasibility constraints. We address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Xiaoxiang Dong , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi