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Despite the numerous breakthroughs achieved with Reinforcement Learning (RL), solving environments with sparse rewards remains a challenging task that requires sophisticated exploration. Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) remedies this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Georgiy Pshikhachev , Dmitry Ivanov , Vladimir Egorov , Aleksei Shpilman

We introduce a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approach for contact-rich manipulation tasks with articulated mechanisms. The extracted policy from a single human demonstration generalizes to different mechanisms of the same type and is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Xing Li , Manuel Baum , Oliver Brock

Teaching robots novel behaviors typically requires motion demonstrations via teleoperation or kinaesthetic teaching, that is, physically guiding the robot. While recent work has explored using human sketches to specify desired behaviors,…

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

Many advanced Learning from Demonstration (LfD) methods consider the decomposition of complex, real-world tasks into simpler sub-tasks. By reusing the corresponding sub-policies within and between tasks, they provide training data for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Kyriacos Shiarlis , Markus Wulfmeier , Sasha Salter , Shimon Whiteson , Ingmar Posner

Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

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

We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

The ability to learn from human demonstration endows robots with the ability to automate various tasks. However, directly learning from human demonstration is challenging since the structure of the human hand can be very different from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xingyu Liu , Deepak Pathak , Kris M. Kitani

Non-prehensile manipulation is challenging due to complex contact interactions between objects, the environment, and robots. Model-based approaches can efficiently generate complex trajectories of robots and objects under contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yuki Shirai , Kei Ota , Devesh K. Jha , Diego Romeres

Over the past few years, there have been numerous works towards advancing the generalization capability of robots, among which learning from demonstrations (LfD) has drawn much attention by virtue of its user-friendly and data-efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Shaokang Wu , Yijin Wang , Yanlong Huang

We present a novel method for learning from demonstration 6-D tasks that can be modeled as a sequence of linear motions and compliances. The focus of this paper is the learning of a single linear primitive, many of which can be sequenced to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Markku Suomalainen , Fares J. Abu-Dakka , Ville Kyrki

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

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a new way to generate robot control policy. However, the process of training control policy requires lengthy exploration, resulting in a low sample efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Chao Li

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Brendan Hertel , Reza Azadeh

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

Successful collaboration requires team members to stay aligned, especially in complex sequential tasks. Team members must dynamically coordinate which subtasks to perform and in what order. However, real-world constraints like partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sangwon Seo , Vaibhav Unhelkar

Reinforcement learning often suffer from the sparse reward issue in real-world robotics problems. Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an effective way to eliminate this problem, which leverages collected expert data to aid online learning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yanjiang Guo , Jingyue Gao , Zheng Wu , Chengming Shi , Jianyu Chen

Learning from demonstrations enables experts to teach robots complex tasks using interfaces such as kinesthetic teaching, joystick control, and sim-to-real transfer. However, these interfaces often constrain the expert's ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinhu Li , Ayush Jain , Zhaojing Yang , Yigit Korkmaz , Erdem Bıyık

By learning Variable Impedance Control policy, robot assistants can intelligently adapt their manipulation compliance to ensure both safe interaction and proper task completion when operating in human-robot interaction environments. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yan Zhang , Fei Zhao , Zhiwei Liao

Preference-aligned robot navigation in human environments is typically achieved through learning-based approaches, utilizing user feedback or demonstrations for personalization. However, personal preferences are subject to change and might…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jorge de Heuvel , Tharun Sethuraman , Maren Bennewitz