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The dynamic motion primitive-based (DMP) method is an effective method of learning from demonstrations. However, most of the current DMP-based methods focus on learning one task with one module. Although, some deep learning-based frameworks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Binzhao Xu , Muhayy Ud Din , Irfan Hussain

Despite growing interest in developing legged robots that emulate biological locomotion for agile navigation of complex environments, acquiring a diverse repertoire of skills remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Existing methods can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ning Huang , Zhentao Xie , Qinchuan Li

Few-shot Continual Event Detection (FCED) poses the dual challenges of learning from limited data and mitigating catastrophic forgetting across sequential tasks. Existing approaches often suffer from severe forgetting due to the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bao-Ngoc Dao , Quang Nguyen , Luyen Ngo Dinh , Minh Le , Linh Ngo Van

The uses of robots are changing from static environments in factories to encompass novel concepts such as Human-Robot Collaboration in unstructured settings. Pre-programming all the functionalities for robots becomes impractical, and hence,…

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

A random recurrent neural network, called a reservoir, can be used to learn robot movements conditioned on context inputs that encode task goals. The Learning is achieved by mapping the random dynamics of the reservoir modulated by context…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zahra Koulaeizadeh , Erhan Oztop

The problem of generalization in learning from demonstration (LfD) has received considerable attention over the years, particularly within the context of movement primitives, where a number of approaches have emerged. Recently, two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Markus Knauer , Alin Albu-Schäffer , Freek Stulp , João Silvério

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular approach that allows humans to teach robots new skills by showing the correct way(s) of performing the desired skill. Human-provided demonstrations, however, are not always optimal and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

Dynamical systems (DS) methods for Learning-from-Demonstration (LfD) provide stable, continuous policies from few demonstrations. First-order dynamical systems (DS) are effective for many point-to-point and periodic tasks, as long as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ahmet Tekden , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Aude Billard , Yasemin Bekiroglu

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…

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

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a promising approach to enable Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) to acquire complex skills and behaviors. However, the intricate interactions and coordination challenges in MRS pose significant hurdles for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Vishnunandan L. N. Venkatesh , Byung-Cheol Min

Existing autonomous robot navigation systems allow robots to move from one point to another in a collision-free manner. However, when facing new environments, these systems generally require re-tuning by expert roboticists with a good…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xuesu Xiao , Bo Liu , Garrett Warnell , Jonathan Fink , Peter Stone

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a powerful learning method to enable a robot to infer how to perform a task given one or more human demonstrations of the desired task. By learning from end-user demonstration rather than requiring that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Qian Luo , Jing Wu , Matthew Gombolay

In the learning from demonstration (LfD) paradigm, understanding and evaluating the demonstrated behaviors plays a critical role in extracting control policies for robots. Without this knowledge, a robot may infer incorrect reward functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Aniruddh G. Puranic , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a paradigm that allows robots to learn complex manipulation tasks that can not be easily scripted, but can be demonstrated by a human teacher. One of the challenges of LfD is to enable robots to acquire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Miguel Arduengo , Adrià Colomé , Júlia Borràs , Luis Sentis , Carme Torras

We propose a novel framework for enhancing robotic adaptability and learning efficiency, which integrates unsupervised trajectory segmentation with adaptive probabilistic movement primitives (ProMPs). By employing a cutting-edge deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Tianci Gao

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

Achieving versatile robot locomotion requires motor skills which can adapt to previously unseen situations. We propose a Multi-Expert Learning Architecture (MELA) that learns to generate adaptive skills from a group of representative expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Chuanyu Yang , Kai Yuan , Qiuguo Zhu , Wanming Yu , Zhibin Li

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…