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In this paper, we propose a novel framework that allows therapists to teach robot-assisted rehabilitation exercises remotely via RGB-D video. Our system encodes demonstrations as 6-DoF body-centric trajectories using Cartesian Dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ali Alabbas , Camillo Murgia , Joanne Regan , Philip Long

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) systems are commonly used to teach robots new tasks by generating a set of skills from user-provided demonstrations. These skills can then be sequenced by planning algorithms to execute complex tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Maximilian Diehl , Tathagata Chakraborti , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

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

Personal robots assisting humans must perform complex manipulation tasks that are typically difficult to specify in traditional motion planning pipelines, where multiple objectives must be met and the high-level context be taken into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Hejia Zhang , Eric Heiden , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Joseph J. Lim , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a framework that allows lay users to easily program robots. However, the efficiency of robot learning and the robot's ability to generalize to task variations hinges upon the quality and quantity of the…

Imitation learning is a promising paradigm for training robot agents; however, standard approaches typically require substantial data acquisition -- via numerous demonstrations or random exploration -- to ensure reliable performance.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hanbit Oh , Masaki Murooka , Tomohiro Motoda , Ryoichi Nakajo , Yukiyasu Domae

The current research focus in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) is directed towards increasing the level of robot autonomy, to place surgeons in a supervisory position. Although Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Ameya Pore , Eleonora Tagliabue , Marco Piccinelli , Diego Dall'Alba , Alicia Casals , Paolo Fiorini

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approaches empower end-users to teach robots novel tasks via demonstrations of the desired behaviors, democratizing access to robotics. However, current LfD frameworks are not capable of fast adaptation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Letian Chen , Sravan Jayanthi , Rohan Paleja , Daniel Martin , Viacheslav Zakharov , Matthew Gombolay

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

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

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

Robots should learn new tasks from humans. But how do humans convey what they want the robot to do? Existing methods largely rely on humans physically guiding the robot arm throughout their intended task. Unfortunately -- as we scale up the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shaunak A. Mehta , Heramb Nemlekar , Hari Sumant , Dylan P. Losey

Soft robots are increasingly used in healthcare, especially for assistive care, due to their inherent safety and adaptability. Controlling soft robots is challenging due to their nonlinear dynamics and the presence of time delays,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Adrià Mompó Alepuz , Dimitrios Papageorgiou , Silvia Tolu

Robot learning from demonstration (LfD) is a research paradigm that can play an important role in addressing the issue of scaling up robot learning. Since this type of approach enables non-robotics experts can teach robots new knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Jangwon Lee

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a technique that allows expert teachers to teach task-oriented skills to robotic systems. However, the most effective way of guiding novice teachers to approach expert-level demonstrations quantitatively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Endong Sun , Yuqing Zhu , Matthew Howard

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) has emerged as a crucial method for robots to acquire new skills. However, when given suboptimal task trajectory demonstrations with shape characteristics reflecting human preferences but subpar dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Chenlin Ming , Zitong Wang , Boxuan Zhang , Zhanxiang Cao , Xiaoming Duan , Jianping He

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular approach for robots to acquire new skills, but most LfD methods suffer from imperfections in human demonstrations. Prior work typically treats these suboptimalities as random noise. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shijie Fang , Hang Yu , Qidi Fang , Reuben M. Aronson , Elaine S. Short

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

We introduce a simple new method for visual imitation learning, which allows a novel robot manipulation task to be learned from a single human demonstration, without requiring any prior knowledge of the object being interacted with. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Edward Johns

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) stands as an efficient framework for imparting human-like skills to robots. Nevertheless, designing an LfD framework capable of seamlessly imitating, generalizing, and reacting to disturbances for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yan Zhang , Teng Xue , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon
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