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Robot Learning from Demonstration (RLfD) is a technique for robots to derive policies from instructors' examples. Although the reciprocal effects of student engagement on teacher behavior are widely recognized in the educational community,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Mingfei Sun , Zhenhui Peng , Meng Xia , Xiaojuan Ma

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) provides an intuitive and fast approach to program robotic manipulators. Task parameterized representations allow easy adaptation to new scenes and online observations. However, this approach has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 An T. Le , Meng Guo , Niels van Duijkeren , Leonel Rozo , Robert Krug , Andras G. Kupcsik , Mathias Buerger

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) 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…

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

When humans perform contact-rich manipulation tasks, customized tools are often necessary to simplify the task. For instance, we use various utensils for handling food, such as knives, forks and spoons. Similarly, robots may benefit from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mengxi Li , Rika Antonova , Dorsa Sadigh , Jeannette Bohg

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 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

Manipulation skills involving contact and friction are inherent to many robotics tasks. Using the class of motor primitives for peg-in-hole like insertions, we study how robots can learn such skills. Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMP) are a…

As robots enter human environments, they will be expected to accomplish a tremendous range of tasks. It is not feasible for robot designers to pre-program these behaviors or know them in advance, so one way to address this is through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Cory J. Hayes , Maryam Moosaei , Laurel D. Riek

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

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

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) techniques enable robots to learn and generalize tasks from user demonstrations, eliminating the need for coding expertise among end-users. One established technique to implement LfD in robots is to encode…

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) can be an efficient way to train systems with analogous agents by enabling ``Student'' agents to learn from the demonstrations of the most experienced ``Teacher'' agent, instead of training their policy in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Emma Clark , Kanghyun Ryu , Negar Mehr

Behavioral cloning, or more broadly, learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a priomising direction for robot policy learning in complex scenarios. Albeit being straightforward to implement and data-efficient, behavioral cloning has its own…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Carl Qi , Edward Sun , Harry Zhang

Robots could learn their own state and world representation from perception and experience without supervision. This desirable goal is the main focus of our field of interest, state representation learning (SRL). Indeed, a compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Astrid Merckling , Alexandre Coninx , Loic Cressot , Stéphane Doncieux , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

Learning from demonstrations is a promising paradigm for transferring knowledge to robots. However, learning mobile manipulation tasks directly from a human teacher is a complex problem as it requires learning models of both the overall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Tim Welschehold , Nichola Abdo , Christian Dornhege , Wolfram Burgard

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

Humans generally teach their fellow collaborators to perform tasks through a small number of demonstrations. The learnt task is corrected or extended to meet specific task goals by means of coaching. Adopting a similar framework for…

Imitation learning enables robots to learn from demonstrations. Previous imitation learning algorithms usually assume access to optimal expert demonstrations. However, in many real-world applications, this assumption is limiting. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Zhangjie Cao , Dorsa Sadigh