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Mobile robots are essential in applications such as autonomous delivery and hospitality services. Applying learning-based methods to address mobile robot tasks has gained popularity due to its robustness and generalizability. Traditional…

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Robots are extending their presence in domestic environments every day, being more common to see them carrying out tasks in home scenarios. In the future, robots are expected to increasingly perform more complex tasks and, therefore, be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ithan Moreira , Javier Rivas , Francisco Cruz , Richard Dazeley , Angel Ayala , Bruno Fernandes

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

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Imitation learning empowers artificial agents to mimic behavior by learning from demonstrations. Recently, diffusion models, which have the ability to model high-dimensional and multimodal distributions, have shown impressive performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kaiqi Chen , Eugene Lim , Kelvin Lin , Yiyang Chen , Harold Soh

Multistage decision policies provide useful control strategies in high-dimensional state spaces, particularly in complex control tasks. However, they exhibit weak performance guarantees in the presence of disturbance, model mismatch, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Olalekan Ogunmolu , Nicholas Gans , Tyler Summers

In real-world scenarios, human dialogues are multi-round and diverse. Furthermore, human instructions can be unclear and human responses are unrestricted. Interactive robots face difficulties in understanding human intents and generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhe Zhang , Wei Chai , Jiankun Wang

In many sequential decision-making problems (e.g., robotics control, game playing, sequential prediction), human or expert data is available containing useful information about the task. However, imitation learning (IL) from a small amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Divyansh Garg , Shuvam Chakraborty , Chris Cundy , Jiaming Song , Matthieu Geist , Stefano Ermon

In order to enable high-quality decision making and motion planning of intelligent systems such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, accurate probabilistic predictions for surrounding interactive objects is a crucial prerequisite. Although…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Jiachen Li , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Imitation learning is an effective and safe technique to train robot policies in the real world because it does not depend on an expensive random exploration process. However, due to the lack of exploration, learning policies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ajay Mandlekar , Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei

Advances in robot learning have enabled robots to generate skills for a variety of tasks. Yet, robot learning is typically sample inefficient, struggles to learn from data sources exhibiting varied behaviors, and does not naturally…

In this paper, we present a methodology for constructing data-driven maneuver generation models for agile aircraft that can generalize across a wide range of trim conditions and aircraft model parameters. Maneuver generation models play a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Gulay Goktas Sever , Umut Demir , Abdullah Sadik Satir , Mustafa Cagatay Sahin , Nazim Kemal Ure

Corrective interventions while a robot is learning to automate a task provide an intuitive method for a human supervisor to assist the robot and convey information about desired behavior. However, these interventions can impose significant…

Accurate modeling of robot dynamics is essential for model-based control, yet remains challenging under distributional shifts and real-time constraints. In this work, we formulate system identification as an in-context meta-learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Angelo Moroncelli , Matteo Rufolo , Gunes Cagin Aydin , Asad Ali Shahid , Loris Roveda

Imitation learning has unlocked the potential for robots to exhibit highly dexterous behaviours. However, it still struggles with long-horizon, multi-object tasks due to poor sample efficiency and limited generalisation. Existing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Krishan Rana , Jad Abou-Chakra , Sourav Garg , Robert Lee , Ian Reid , Niko Suenderhauf

Large-scale demonstration data has powered key breakthroughs in robot manipulation, but collecting that data remains costly and time-consuming. We present Constraint-Preserving Data Generation (CP-Gen), a method that uses a single expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kevin Lin , Varun Ragunath , Andrew McAlinden , Aaditya Prasad , Jimmy Wu , Yuke Zhu , Jeannette Bohg

Traditional drug design faces significant challenges due to inherent chemical and biological complexities, often resulting in high failure rates in clinical trials. Deep learning advancements, particularly generative models, offer potential…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Mahsa Sheikholeslami , Navid Mazrouei , Yousof Gheisari , Afshin Fasihi , Matin Irajpour , Ali Motahharynia

Training general robotic policies from heterogeneous data for different tasks is a significant challenge. Existing robotic datasets vary in different modalities such as color, depth, tactile, and proprioceptive information, and collected in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Lirui Wang , Jialiang Zhao , Yilun Du , Edward H. Adelson , Russ Tedrake

Reinforcement learning is a promising method for robotic grasping as it can learn effective reaching and grasping policies in difficult scenarios. However, achieving human-like manipulation capabilities with sophisticated robotic hands is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Martin Schuck , Jan Brüdigam , Alexandre Capone , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

When robots work in a cluttered environment, the constraints for motions change frequently and the required action can change even for the same task. However, planning complex motions from direct calculation has the risk of resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Kyo Kutsuzawa , Hitoshi Kusano , Ayaka Kume , Shoichiro Yamaguchi