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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) 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

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular approach to endowing robots with skills without having to program them by hand. Typically, LfD relies on human demonstrations in clutter-free environments. This prevents the demonstrations from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Muhammad Asif Rana , Mustafa Mukadam , Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular approach that allows humans to teach robots new skills by showing the correct way(s) of performing the desired skill. Human-provided demonstrations, however, are not always optimal and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

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) enables robots to acquire versatile skills by learning motion policies from human demonstrations. It endows users with an intuitive interface to transfer new skills to robots without the need for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianyong Sun , Jens Kober , Michael Gienger , Jihong Zhu

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

We introduce a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approach for contact-rich manipulation tasks with articulated mechanisms. The extracted policy from a single human demonstration generalizes to different mechanisms of the same type and is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Xing Li , Manuel Baum , Oliver Brock

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is commonly considered to be a natural and intuitive way to allow novice users to teach motor skills to robots. However, it is important to acknowledge that the effectiveness of LfD is heavily dependent on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Marina Y. Aoyama , Matthew Howard

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

Learning from demonstration (LfD) has the potential to greatly increase the applicability of robotic manipulators in modern industrial applications. Recent progress in LfD methods have put more emphasis in learning robustness than in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Fouad Sukkar , Victor Hernandez Moreno , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Jochen Deuse

This paper provides a structured and practical roadmap for practitioners to integrate Learning from Demonstration (LfD ) into manufacturing tasks, with a specific focus on industrial manipulators. Motivated by the paradigm shift from mass…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Alireza Barekatain , Hamed Habibi , Holger Voos

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular method of reproducing and generalizing robot skills from human-provided demonstrations. In this paper, we propose a novel optimization-based LfD method that encodes demonstrations as elastic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , Matthew Pelland , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

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

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

Robots are increasingly being deployed not only in workplaces but also in households. Effectively execute of manipulation tasks by robots relies on variable impedance control with contact forces. Furthermore, robots should possess adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yu Zhang , Long Cheng , Xiuze Xia , Haoyu Zhang

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a paradigm that allows robots to learn complex manipulation tasks that can not be easily scripted, but can be demonstrated by a human teacher. One of the challenges of LfD is to enable robots to acquire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Miguel Arduengo , Adrià Colomé , Júlia Borràs , Luis Sentis , Carme Torras

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

This paper presents a novel Learning from Demonstration (LfD) method that uses neural fields to learn new skills efficiently and accurately. It achieves this by utilizing a shared embedding to learn both scene and motion representations in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Ahmet Tekden , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Yasemin Bekiroglu

Current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems for skill teaching are fragmented, and existing approaches in the literature do not offer a cohesive framework that is simultaneously efficient, intuitive, and universally safe. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zi-Qi Yang , Mehrdad R. Kermani
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