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Imitation learning is a widely used approach for training agents to replicate expert behavior in complex decision-making tasks. However, existing methods often struggle with compounding errors and limited generalization, due to the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Haldun Balim , Yang Hu , Yuyang Zhang , Na Li

Robot perception under low light or high dynamic range is usually improved downstream - via more robust feature extraction, image enhancement, or closed-loop exposure control. However, all of these approaches are limited by the image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yash Turkar , Shekoufeh Sadeghi , Karthik Dantu

One of the main challenges in imitation learning is determining what action an agent should take when outside the state distribution of the demonstrations. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) can enable generalization to new states by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Daniel S. Brown , Scott Niekum , Marek Petrik

To economically deploy robotic manipulators the programming and execution of robot motions must be swift. To this end, we propose a novel, constraint-based method to intuitively specify sequential manipulation tasks and to compute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Mun Seng Phoon , Philipp S. Schmitt , Georg v. Wichert

Model-based Reinforcement Learning and Control have demonstrated great potential in various sequential decision making problem domains, including in robotics settings. However, real-world robotics systems often present challenges that limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Achkan Salehi , Steffen Rühl , Stephane Doncieux

Robust dynamic interactions are required to move robots in daily environments alongside humans. Optimisation and learning methods have been used to mimic and reproduce human movements. However, they are often not robust and their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Carlo Tiseo , Quentin Rouxel , Zhibin Li , Michael Mistry

This paper proposes a imitation learning model for autonomous driving on highway traffic by mimicking human drivers' driving behaviours. The study utilizes the HighD traffic dataset, which is complex, high-dimensional, and diverse in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Mustafa Yildirim , Saber Fallah

Imitation learning (IL) is a general learning paradigm for tackling sequential decision-making problems. Interactive imitation learning, where learners can interactively query for expert demonstrations, has been shown to achieve provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yichen Li , Chicheng Zhang

Assigning repetitive and physically-demanding construction tasks to robots can alleviate human workers's exposure to occupational injuries. Transferring necessary dexterous and adaptive artisanal construction craft skills from workers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hongrui Yu , Vineet R. Kamat , Carol C. Menassa

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms have shown promising results for robots to learn skills from expert demonstrations. However, they need multi-task demonstrations to be provided at once for acquiring diverse skills, which is difficult in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chongkai Gao , Haichuan Gao , Shangqi Guo , Tianren Zhang , Feng Chen

Dynamic quadruped locomotion over challenging terrains with precise foot placements is a hard problem for both optimal control methods and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Non-linear solvers can produce coordinated constraint satisfying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Philemon Brakel , Steven Bohez , Leonard Hasenclever , Nicolas Heess , Konstantinos Bousmalis

Learning motor skills for sports or performance driving is often done with professional instruction from expert human teachers, whose availability is limited. Our goal is to enable automated teaching via a learned model that interacts with…

Imitation learning aims to extract high-performance policies from logged demonstrations of expert behavior. It is common to frame imitation learning as a supervised learning problem in which one fits a function approximator to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengjiao Yang , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel , Ofir Nachum

This paper addresses the problem of motion planning for differential drive micro-mobility platforms. This class of vehicle is designed to perform small-distance transportation of passengers and goods in structured environments. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Angelo Caregnato-Neto , Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira

Cross-coupled iterative learning control (ILC) can achieve high performance for manufacturing applications in which tracking a contour is essential for the quality of a product. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Leontine Aarnoudse , Johan Kon , Koen Classens , Max van Meer , Maurice Poot , Paul Tacx , Nard Strijbosch , Tom Oomen

Behavior cloning (BC) has become a staple imitation learning paradigm in robotics due to its ease of teaching robots complex skills directly from expert demonstrations. However, BC suffers from an inherent generalization issue. To solve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tianyu Li , Sunan Sun , Shubhodeep Shiv Aditya , Nadia Figueroa

Path planning for multiple robots is well studied in the AI and robotics communities. For a given discretized environment, robots need to find collision-free paths to a set of specified goal locations. Robots can be fully anonymous,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Wolfgang Hönig , T. K. Satish Kumar , Liron Cohen , Hang Ma , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to mimic expert behaviors. Most previous IL techniques focus on precisely imitating one policy through mass demonstrations. However, in many applications, what humans require is the ability to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiong-Hui Chen , Junyin Ye , Hang Zhao , Yi-Chen Li , Haoran Shi , Yu-Yan Xu , Zhihao Ye , Si-Hang Yang , Anqi Huang , Kai Xu , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

The decision and planning system for autonomous driving in urban environments is hard to design. Most current methods manually design the driving policy, which can be expensive to develop and maintain at scale. Instead, with imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jianyu Chen , Bodi Yuan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In this paper we present a reformulation--framed as a constrained optimization problem--of multi-robot tasks which are encoded through a cost function that is to be minimized. The advantages of this approach are multiple. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt