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Learning from visual data opens the potential to accrue a large range of manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations without specifying each of them mathematically, but rather through natural task specification. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Haoyu Xiong , Quanzhou Li , Yun-Chun Chen , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg

Open, or non-laparoscopic surgery, represents the vast majority of all operating room procedures, but few tools exist to objectively evaluate these techniques at scale. Current efforts involve human expert-based visual assessment. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Michael Zhang , Xiaotian Cheng , Daniel Copeland , Arjun Desai , Melody Y. Guan , Gabriel A. Brat , Serena Yeung

Background: People with severe speech and motor impairment (SSMI) often uses a technique called eye pointing to communicate with outside world. One of their parents, caretakers or teachers hold a printed board in front of them and by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Vinay Krishna Sharma , L. R. D. Murthy , KamalPreet Singh Saluja , Vimal Mollyn , Gourav Sharma , Pradipta Biswas

The field of visual representation learning has seen explosive growth in the past years, but its benefits in robotics have been surprisingly limited so far. Prior work uses generic visual representations as a basis to learn (task-specific)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianren Wang , Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta

This paper proposes a vision-based framework for a 7-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator, with the primary objective of facilitating its capacity to acquire information from human hand demonstrations for the execution of dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Nuo Chen , Ya-Jun Pan

Learning bimanual manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality and tight coordination required between two arms. Eye-in-hand imitation learning, which uses wrist-mounted cameras, simplifies perception by focusing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 I-Chun Arthur Liu , Jason Chen , Gaurav Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

Humans are adept at learning new tasks by watching a few instructional videos. On the other hand, robots that learn new actions either require a lot of effort through trial and error, or use expert demonstrations that are challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Vladimír Petrík , Makarand Tapaswi , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic

We design a new approach that allows robot learning of new activities from unlabeled human example videos. Given videos of humans executing the same activity from a human's viewpoint (i.e., first-person videos), our objective is to make the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Jangwon Lee , Michael S. Ryoo

Assistive robotic arms enable users with physical disabilities to perform everyday tasks without relying on a caregiver. Unfortunately, the very dexterity that makes these arms useful also makes them challenging to teleoperate: the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Dylan P. Losey , Krishnan Srinivasan , Ajay Mandlekar , Animesh Garg , Dorsa Sadigh

Most of industrial robots are still programmed using the typical teaching process, through the use of the robot teach pendant. In this paper is proposed an accelerometer-based system to control an industrial robot using two low-cost and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Pedro Neto , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

We propose a technique for multi-task learning from demonstration that trains the controller of a low-cost robotic arm to accomplish several complex picking and placing tasks, as well as non-prehensile manipulation. The controller is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Rouhollah Rahmatizadeh , Pooya Abolghasemi , Ladislau Bölöni , Sergey Levine

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

This Paper deals with robotic arm embed controller system, with distributed system based on protocol communication between one server supporting multiple points and mobile applications trough sockets .The proposed system utilizes hand with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Luiz Cortinhas , Patrick Monteiro , Amir Zahlan , Gabriel Vianna , Marcio Moscoso

We present a new method to translate videos to commands for robotic manipulation using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Our framework first extracts deep features from the input video frames with a deep Convolutional Neural Networks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Anh Nguyen , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Luca Muratore , Darwin G. Caldwell , Nikos G. Tsagarakis

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

In this paper, we evaluate a semi-autonomous brain-computer interface (BCI) for manipulation tasks. In such system, the user controls a robotic arm through motor imagery commands. In traditional process-control BCI systems, the user has to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 M. A. Ramirez-Moreno , D. Gutiérrez

The cooperation of a pair of robot manipulators is required to manipulate a target object without any fixtures. The conventional control methods coordinate the end-effector pose of each manipulator with that of the other using their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zizhe Zhang , Yuan Yang , Wenqiang Zuo , Guangming Song , Aiguo Song , Yang Shi

Robots operating in human environments need various skills, like slow and fast walking, turning, side-stepping, and many more. However, building robot controllers that can exhibit such a large range of behaviors is a challenging problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Tianyu Li , Jungdam Won , Sehoon Ha , Akshara Rai

Many recent advances in robotic manipulation have come through imitation learning, yet these rely largely on mimicking a particularly hard-to-acquire form of demonstrations: those collected on the same robot in the same room with the same…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junyao Shi , Zhuolun Zhao , Tianyou Wang , Ian Pedroza , Amy Luo , Jie Wang , Jason Ma , Dinesh Jayaraman