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Fast and efficient sampling-based motion planning (SMP) is an integral component of many robotic systems, such as autonomous cars. A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning…
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As a user-friendly and straightforward solution for robot trajectory generation, imitation learning has been viewed as a vital direction in the context of robot skill learning. In contrast to unconstrained imitation learning which ignores…
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Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMP) have found remarkable applicability and success in various robotic tasks, which can be mainly attributed to their generalization, modulation and robustness properties. Nevertheless, the spatial…
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Although robotic applications increasingly demand versatile and dynamic object handling, most existing techniques are predominantly focused on grasp-based manipulation, limiting their applicability in non-prehensile tasks. To address this…
The capability to adapt compliance by varying muscle stiffness is crucial for dexterous manipulation skills in humans. Incorporating compliance in robot motor control is crucial to performing real-world force interaction tasks with…
To learn manipulation skills, robots need to understand the features of those skills. An easy way for robots to learn is through Learning from Demonstration (LfD), where the robot learns a skill from an expert demonstrator. While the main…
This work adds on to the on-going efforts to provide more autonomy to space robots. Here the concept of programming by demonstration or imitation learning is used for trajectory planning of manipulators mounted on small spacecraft. For…
Movement Primitives (MPs) are a well-established method for representing and generating modular robot trajectories. This work presents FA-ProDMP, a new approach which introduces force awareness to Probabilistic Dynamic Movement Primitives…
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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…