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Recent progress in human-robot collaboration makes fast and fluid interactions possible, even when human observations are partial and occluded. Methods like Interaction Probabilistic Movement Primitives (ProMP) model human trajectories…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Longxin Chen , Juan Rojas , Shuangda Duan , Yisheng Guan

Although Model Predictive Control (MPC) can effectively predict the future states of a system and thus is widely used in robotic manipulation tasks, it does not have the capability of environmental perception, leading to the failure in some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wentao Zhao , Jiaming Chen , Ziyu Meng , Donghui Mao , Ran Song , Wei Zhang

A common strategy in modern learning systems is to learn a representation that is useful for many tasks, a.k.a. representation learning. We study this strategy in the imitation learning setting for Markov decision processes (MDPs) where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Sanjeev Arora , Simon S. Du , Sham Kakade , Yuping Luo , Nikunj Saunshi

We propose pose-guided multiplane image (MPI) synthesis which can render an animatable character in real scenes with photorealistic quality. We use a portable camera rig to capture the multi-view images along with the driving signal for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hao Ouyang , Bo Zhang , Pan Zhang , Hao Yang , Jiaolong Yang , Dong Chen , Qifeng Chen , Fang Wen

Computational protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction techniques can contribute greatly in reducing time, cost and false-positive interactions compared to experimental approaches. Sequence is one of the key and primary information of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Soumyadeep Debnath , Ayatullah Faruk Mollah

In recent years, domains such as natural language processing and image recognition have popularized the paradigm of using large datasets to pretrain representations that can be effectively transferred to downstream tasks. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Brandfonbrener , Ofir Nachum , Joan Bruna

Robotic Manipulation (RM) is central to the advancement of autonomous robots, enabling them to interact with and manipulate objects in real-world environments. This survey focuses on RM methodologies that leverage imitation learning, a…

When a robot performs a task next to a human, physical interaction is inevitable: the human might push, pull, twist, or guide the robot. The state-of-the-art treats these interactions as disturbances that the robot should reject or avoid.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Dylan P. Losey , Andrea Bajcsy , Marcia K. O'Malley , Anca D. Dragan

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

Tool use is essential for enabling robots to perform complex real-world tasks, but learning such skills requires extensive datasets. While teleoperation is widely used, it is slow, delay-sensitive, and poorly suited for dynamic tasks. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Haonan Chen , Cheng Zhu , Shuijing Liu , Yunzhu Li , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning. Here, we tackle prehensile manipulation, in which tasks involve grasping an object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Albert J. Zhai , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiasen Lu , Ali Farhadi , Shenlong Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma

Understanding human perceptions of robot performance is crucial for designing socially intelligent robots that can adapt to human expectations. Current approaches often rely on surveys, which can disrupt ongoing human-robot interactions. As…

Modeling interaction dynamics to generate robot trajectories that enable a robot to adapt and react to a human's actions and intentions is critical for efficient and effective collaborative Human-Robot Interactions (HRI). Learning from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Vignesh Prasad , Dorothea Koert , Ruth Stock-Homburg , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Traditional control and planning for robotic manipulation heavily rely on precise physical models and predefined action sequences. While effective in structured environments, such approaches often fail in real-world scenarios due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jin Wang , Weijie Wang , Boyuan Deng , Heng Zhang , Rui Dai , Nikos Tsagarakis

Imitation learning has shown great potential for enabling robots to acquire complex manipulation behaviors. However, these algorithms suffer from high sample complexity in long-horizon tasks, where compounding errors accumulate over the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tian Gao , Soroush Nasiriany , Huihan Liu , Quantao Yang , Yuke Zhu

As the pretraining technique is growing in popularity, little work has been done on pretrained learning-based motion prediction methods in autonomous driving. In this paper, we propose a framework to formalize the pretraining task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yi Yang , Qingwen Zhang , Thomas Gilles , Nazre Batool , John Folkesson

The field of robotic manipulation has advanced significantly in recent years. At the sensing level, several novel tactile sensors have been developed, capable of providing accurate contact information. On a methodological level, learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Niklas Funk , Changqi Chen , Tim Schneider , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Roberto Calandra , Jan Peters

Although many pretrained models exist for text or images, there have been relatively fewer attempts to train representations specifically for dialog understanding. Prior works usually relied on finetuned representations based on generic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Bishal Santra , Sumegh Roychowdhury , Aishik Mandal , Vasu Gurram , Atharva Naik , Manish Gupta , Pawan Goyal

Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) systems have gained huge interest in recent years, with reference expression comprehension being one of the main challenges. Traditionally human-machine interaction has been mostly limited to speech and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aman Jain , Anirudh Reddy Kondapally , Kentaro Yamada , Hitomi Yanaka

Physical Human-Human Interaction (pHHI) involves the use of multiple sensory modalities. Studies of communication through spoken utterances and gestures are well established, but communication through force signals is not well understood.…