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It is desirable for future robots to quickly learn new tasks and adapt learned skills to constantly changing environments. To this end, Probabilistic Movement Primitives (ProMPs) have shown to be a promising framework to learn generalizable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Joao Carvalho , Dorothea Koert , Marek Daniv , Jan Peters

This paper proposes a learning-from-demonstration method using probability densities on the workspaces of robot manipulators. The method, named "PRobabilistically-Informed Motion Primitives (PRIMP)", learns the probability distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sipu Ruan , Weixiao Liu , Xiaoli Wang , Xin Meng , Gregory S. Chirikjian

The ability to learn from human demonstration endows robots with the ability to automate various tasks. However, directly learning from human demonstration is challenging since the structure of the human hand can be very different from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xingyu Liu , Deepak Pathak , Kris M. Kitani

Learning from demonstration provides a sample-efficient approach to acquiring complex behaviors, enabling robots to move robustly, compliantly, and with fluidity. In this context, Dynamic Motion Primitives offer built - in stability and…

The dynamic motion primitive-based (DMP) method is an effective method of learning from demonstrations. However, most of the current DMP-based methods focus on learning one task with one module. Although, some deep learning-based frameworks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Binzhao Xu , Muhayy Ud Din , Irfan Hussain

Pre-training on large datasets of robot demonstrations is a powerful technique for learning diverse manipulation skills but is often limited by the high cost and complexity of collecting robot-centric data, especially for tasks requiring…

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

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

Recent years have seen a growth in the number of industrial robots working closely with end-users such as factory workers. This growing use of collaborative robots has been enabled in part due to the availability of end-user robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Gopika Ajaykumar , Chien-Ming Huang

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

Developing autonomous robots capable of learning and reproducing complex motions from demonstrations remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. On the one hand, movement primitives (MPs) provide a compact and modular representation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yiming Li , Sylvain Calinon

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) systems are commonly used to teach robots new tasks by generating a set of skills from user-provided demonstrations. These skills can then be sequenced by planning algorithms to execute complex tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Maximilian Diehl , Tathagata Chakraborti , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) offer great versatility for encoding, generating and adapting complex end-effector trajectories. DMPs are also very well suited to learning manipulation skills from human demonstration. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Artūras Straižys , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

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

In the last ongoing years, there has been a significant ascending on the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for performing multiple tasks including English Language Teaching (ELT). An effective strategy to favor the learning process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Carlos Morales-Torres , Mario Campos-Soberanis , Diego Campos-Sobrino

To equip robots with dexterous skills, an effective approach is to first transfer the desired skill via Learning from Demonstration (LfD), then let the robot improve it by self-exploration via Reinforcement Learning (RL). In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 M. Tuluhan Akbulut , Erhan Oztop , M. Yunus Seker , Honghu Xue , Ahmet E. Tekden , Emre Ugur

In recent years, industrial robots have been installed in various industries to handle advanced manufacturing and high precision tasks. However, further integration of industrial robots is hampered by their limited flexibility, adaptability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oren Spector , Miriam Zacksenhouse

Learning generalizable insertion skills in a data-efficient manner has long been a challenge in the robot learning community. While the current state-of-the-art methods with reinforcement learning (RL) show promising performance in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zheng Wu , Wenzhao Lian , Changhao Wang , Mengxi Li , Stefan Schaal , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining popularity in the field of robotics. However, LLM-based robots are limited to simple, repetitive motions due to the poor integration between language models, robots, and the environment. This paper…

Learning from humans allows non-experts to program robots with ease, lowering the resources required to build complex robotic solutions. Nevertheless, such data-driven approaches often lack the ability to provide guarantees regarding their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari , Jens Kober