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Key challenges for the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real world are the discovery, representation and reuse of skills in the absence of a reward function. To this end, we propose a novel approach to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Oier Mees , Markus Merklinger , Gabriel Kalweit , Wolfram Burgard

We describe an algorithm for motion planning based on expert demonstrations of a skill. In order to teach robots to perform complex object manipulation tasks that can generalize robustly to new environments, we must (1) learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Chris Paxton , Marin Kobilarov , Gregory D. Hager

Flexible manufacturing processes demand robots to easily adapt to changes in the environment and interact with humans. In such dynamic scenarios, robotic tasks may be programmed through learning-from-demonstration approaches, where a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Leonel Rozo

In order to autonomously learn wide repertoires of complex skills, robots must be able to learn from their own autonomously collected data, without human supervision. One learning signal that is always available for autonomously collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine

Language-conditioned robot behavior plays a vital role in executing complex tasks by associating human commands or instructions with perception and actions. The ability to compose long-horizon tasks based on unconstrained language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhaoxun Ju , Chao Yang , Hongbo Wang , Yu Qiao , Fuchun Sun

Exploration is crucial for enabling legged robots to learn agile locomotion behaviors that can overcome diverse obstacles. However, such exploration is inherently challenging, and we often rely on extensive reward engineering, expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Seungeun Rho , Kartik Garg , Morgan Byrd , Sehoon Ha

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

In robotics, there is need of an interactive and expedite learning method as experience is expensive. Robot Learning from Demonstration (RLfD) enables a robot to learn a policy from demonstrations performed by teacher. RLfD enables a human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Sulabh Kumra , Ferat Sahin

As reinforcement learning for humanoid robots evolves from single-task to multi-skill paradigms, efficiently expanding new skills while avoiding catastrophic forgetting has become a key challenge in embodied intelligence. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yifei Yan , Linqi Ye

When cast into the Deep Reinforcement Learning framework, many robotics tasks require solving a long horizon and sparse reward problem, where learning algorithms struggle. In such context, Imitation Learning (IL) can be a powerful approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Alexandre Chenu , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Olivier Sigaud

It is crucial for robots to be aware of the presence of constraints in order to acquire safe policies. However, explicitly specifying all constraints in an environment can be a challenging task. State-of-the-art constraint inference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Dimitris Papadimitriou , Daniel S. Brown

Robotic grasp detection is a fundamental capability for intelligent manipulation in unstructured environments. Previous work mainly employed visual and tactile fusion to achieve stable grasp, while, the whole process depending heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Teng Xue , Wenhai Liu , Mingshuo Han , Zhenyu Pan , Jin Ma , Quanquan Shao , Weiming Wang

We tackle the challenge of robotic bin packing with irregular objects, such as groceries. Given the diverse physical attributes of these objects and the complex constraints governing their placement and manipulation, employing preprogrammed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 André Santos , Nuno Ferreira Duarte , Atabak Dehban , José Santos-Victor

Manipulation tasks such as preparing a meal or assembling furniture remain highly challenging for robotics and vision. Traditional task and motion planning (TAMP) methods can solve complex tasks but require full state observability and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Robin Strudel , Alexander Pashevich , Igor Kalevatykh , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Cordelia Schmid

Human demonstration videos are a widely available data source for robot learning and an intuitive user interface for expressing desired behavior. However, directly extracting reusable robot manipulation skills from unstructured human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mengda Xu , Zhenjia Xu , Cheng Chi , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

Humans can observe a single, imperfect demonstration and immediately generalize to very different problem settings. Robots, in contrast, often require hundreds of examples and still struggle to generalize beyond the training conditions. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ben Zandonati , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Efficiently tackling multiple tasks within complex environment, such as those found in robot manipulation, remains an ongoing challenge in robotics and an opportunity for data-driven solutions, such as reinforcement learning (RL).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Carlos Plou , Ana C. Murillo , Ruben Martinez-Cantin

The ability to localize and segment objects from unseen classes would open the door to new applications, such as autonomous object learning in active vision. Nonetheless, improving the performance on unseen classes requires additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuming Du , Yang Xiao , Vincent Lepetit

Existing approaches to reward inference from behavior typically assume that humans provide demonstrations according to specific models of behavior. However, humans often indicate their goals through a wide range of behaviors, from actions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Will Schwarzer , Jordan Schneider , Philip S. Thomas , Scott Niekum

A crucial task in system identification problems is the selection of the most appropriate model class, and is classically addressed resorting to cross-validation or using asymptotic arguments. As recently suggested in the literature, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Silvia Bonettini , Alessandro Chiuso , Marco Prato