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Humans can leverage physical interaction to teach robot arms. This physical interaction takes multiple forms depending on the task, the user, and what the robot has learned so far. State-of-the-art approaches focus on learning from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Shaunak A. Mehta , Dylan P. Losey

Human bimanual manipulation can perform more complex tasks than a simple combination of two single arms, which is credited to the spatio-temporal coordination between the arms. However, the description of bimanual coordination is still an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junjia Liu , Hengyi Sim , Chenzui Li , Fei Chen

In this paper, we report the results of our latest work on the automated generation of planning operators from human demonstrations, and we present some of our future research ideas. To automatically generate planning operators, our system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Maximilian Diehl , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

The deployment of Reinforcement Learning to robotics applications faces the difficulty of reward engineering. Therefore, approaches have focused on creating reward functions by Learning from Observations (LfO) which is the task of learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Milan Ganai , Chiaki Hirayama , Ya-Chien Chang , Sicun Gao

Learning from demonstration is an effective method for human users to instruct desired robot behaviour. However, for most non-trivial tasks of practical interest, efficient learning from demonstration depends crucially on inductive bias in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yordan Hristov , Daniel Angelov , Michael Burke , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Vision-based learning methods provide promise for robots to learn complex manipulation tasks. However, how to generalize the learned manipulation skills to real-world interactions remains an open question. In this work, we study robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhixin Jia , Mengxiang Lin , Zhixin Chen , Shibo Jian

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

Understanding how humans evaluate robot behavior during human-robot interactions is crucial for developing socially aware robots that behave according to human expectations. While the traditional approach to capturing these evaluations is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qiping Zhang , Nathan Tsoi , Mofeed Nagib , Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang , Marynel Vázquez

Socially compliant navigation is an integral part of safety features in Human-Robot Interaction. Traditional approaches to mobile navigation prioritize physical aspects, such as efficiency, but social behaviors gain traction as robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yigit Yildirim , Mehmet Suzer , Emre Ugur

As robots and other intelligent agents move from simple environments and problems to more complex, unstructured settings, manually programming their behavior has become increasingly challenging and expensive. Often, it is easier for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Takayuki Osa , Joni Pajarinen , Gerhard Neumann , J. Andrew Bagnell , Pieter Abbeel , Jan Peters

Robots operating in complex and uncertain environments face considerable challenges. Advanced robotic systems often rely on extensive datasets to learn manipulation tasks. In contrast, when humans are faced with unfamiliar tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yichen Zhu , Feifei Feng

Fast changing tasks in unpredictable, collaborative environments are typical for medium-small companies, where robotised applications are increasing. Thus, robot programs should be generated in short time with small effort, and the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Oscar Gustavsson , Matteo Iovino , Jonathan Styrud , Christian Smith

Observational learning is a promising approach to enable people without expertise in programming to transfer skills to robots in a user-friendly manner, since it mirrors how humans learn new behaviors by observing others. Many existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Elena Merlo , Marta Lagomarsino , Edoardo Lamon , Arash Ajoudani

Learning from demonstration (LfD) provides a convenient means to equip robots with dexterous skills when demonstration can be obtained in robot intrinsic coordinates. However, the problem of compounding errors in long and complex skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 T. Baturhan Akbulut , G. Tuba C. Girgin , Arash Mehrabi , Minoru Asada , Emre Ugur , Erhan Oztop

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) is the process of building behavioral models of a task from demonstrations provided by an expert. These models can be used e.g. for system control by generalizing the expert demonstrations to previously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-07 Adrian Šošić , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Heinz Koeppl

This paper provides a structured and practical roadmap for practitioners to integrate Learning from Demonstration (LfD ) into manufacturing tasks, with a specific focus on industrial manipulators. Motivated by the paradigm shift from mass…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Alireza Barekatain , Hamed Habibi , Holger Voos

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) seeks to democratize robotics by enabling diverse end-users to teach robots to perform a task by providing demonstrations. However, most LfD techniques assume users provide optimal demonstrations. This is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Maram Sakr , Zexi Jesse Li , H. F. Machiel Van der Loos , Dana Kulic , Elizabeth A. Croft

We present a novel Learning from Demonstration (LfD) method, Deformable Manipulation from Demonstrations (DMfD), to solve deformable manipulation tasks using states or images as inputs, given expert demonstrations. Our method uses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Gautam Salhotra , I-Chun Arthur Liu , Marcus Dominguez-Kuhne , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Semantic 3D scene understanding is a problem of critical importance in robotics. While significant advances have been made in simultaneous localization and mapping algorithms, robots are still far from having the common sense knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 William Chen , Siyi Hu , Rajat Talak , Luca Carlone