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We present a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) framework that achieves one-shot generalization in multi-stage, contact-rich manipulation tasks. Central to our approach is the utilization of environmental constraints as the inductive bias.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Li , Oliver Brock

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

Imitation learning from observation (LfO) is more preferable than imitation learning from demonstration (LfD) due to the nonnecessity of expert actions when reconstructing the expert policy from the expert data. However, previous studies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zhihao Cheng , Liu Liu , Aishan Liu , Hao Sun , Meng Fang , Dacheng Tao

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

This paper presents a novel approach for robot navigation in environments containing deformable obstacles. By integrating Learning from Demonstration (LfD) with Dynamical Systems (DS), we enable adaptive and efficient navigation in complex…

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

Learning from demonstration is one of the most promising methods to counteract the challenging long-term trends in repetitive industrial assembly. It offers not only a programming technique that is accessible to workers on the shop floor,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 V. Hernandez Moreno , S. Jansing , M. Polikarpov , M. G. Carmichael , J. Deuse

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) seeks to democratize robotics by enabling non-roboticist end-users to teach robots to perform a task by providing a human demonstration. However, modern LfD techniques, e.g. inverse reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Letian Chen , Rohan Paleja , Matthew Gombolay

This paper proposes a method to learn from human demonstration compliant contact motions, which take advantage of interaction forces between workpieces to align them, even when contact force may occur from different directions on different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Markku Suomalainen , Ville Kyrki

The goal of learning from demonstrations is to learn a policy for an agent (imitator) by mimicking the behavior in the demonstrations. Prior works on learning from demonstrations assume that the demonstrations are collected by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhangjie Cao , Yilun Hao , Mengxi Li , Dorsa Sadigh

In recent years, there has been a booming shift in the development of versatile, autonomous robots by introducing means to intuitively teach robots task-oriented behaviour by demonstration. In this paper, a method based on programming by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jeevan Manavalan , Prabhakar Ray , Matthew Howard

Recent advancements in manufacturing have a growing demand for fast, automatic prototyping (i.e. assembly and disassembly) capabilities to meet users' needs. This paper studies automatic rapid LEGO prototyping, which is devoted to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ruixuan Liu , Alan Chen , Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is useful in settings where hand-coding behaviour or a reward function is impractical. It has succeeded in a wide range of problems but typically relies on manually generated demonstrations or specially…

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

A challenge in robot grasping is to achieve task-grasping which is to select a grasp that is advantageous to the success of tasks before and after grasps. One of the frameworks to address this difficulty is Learning-from-Observation (LfO),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daichi Saito , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Jun Takamatsu , Hideki Koike , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have enabled robot agents to accomplish complex tasks. Reward Machines (RMs) enhance RL's capability to train policies over extended time horizons by structuring high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Learning from demonstration is widely used for robot navigation, yet it suffers from a fundamental limitation: demonstrations consist predominantly of successful behaviors and provide limited coverage of unsafe states. This limitation leads…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xianghui Wang , Siwei Cheng , Shanze Wang , Xinming Zhang , Dan Zhang , Wei Zhang

This paper proposes a learning-from-demonstration method using probability densities on the workspaces of robot manipulators. The method, named "PRobabilistically-Informed Motion Primitives (PRIMP)", learns the probability distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sipu Ruan , Weixiao Liu , Xiaoli Wang , Xin Meng , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Learning from human video demonstrations offers a scalable alternative to teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching, but poses challenges for robot manipulators due to embodiment differences and joint feasibility constraints. We address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Xiaoxiang Dong , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

With the fast improvement of machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to automate human tasks in different areas. However, training such agents is difficult and restricted to expert users. Moreover, it is mostly limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 André Correia , Luís A. Alexandre