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While imitation learning methods have seen a resurgent interest for robotic manipulation, the well-known problem of compounding errors continues to afflict behavioral cloning (BC). Waypoints can help address this problem by reducing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Archit Sharma , Tony Z. Zhao , Chelsea Finn

Cross-embodiment robotic manipulation synthesis for complicated tasks is challenging, partially due to the scarcity of paired cross-embodiment datasets and the impediment of designing intricate controllers. Inspired by robotic learning via…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Apan Dastider , Hao Fang , Mingjie Lin

Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (i.e., motion trajectories and perceptual data). No adequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Stefan Lee , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

In-hand tool manipulation is an operation that not only manipulates a tool within the hand (i.e., in-hand manipulation) but also achieves a grasp suitable for a task after the manipulation. This study aims to achieve an in-hand tool…

As brain-computer interfacing (BCI) systems transition from assistive technology to more diverse applications, their speed, reliability, and user experience become increasingly important. Dynamic stopping methods enhance BCI system speed by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sara Ahmadi , Peter Desain , Jordy Thielen

Mobile manipulators require coordinated control between navigation and manipulation to accomplish tasks. Typically, coordinated mobile manipulation behaviors have base navigation to approach the goal followed by arm manipulation to reach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xiaoxu Feng , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai

This work proposes a unified Hierarchical Model Predictive Control (H-MPC) for modular manipulators across various morphologies, as the controller can adapt to different configurations to execute the given task without extensive parameter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Maolin Lei , Edoardo Romiti , Arturo Laurenzi , Cheng Zhou , Wanli Xing , Liang Lu , Nikos G. Tsagarakis

Imitation learning from human motion capture (MoCap) data provides a promising way to train humanoid robots. However, due to differences in morphology, such as varying degrees of joint freedom and force limits, exact replication of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Yi Zhao , Joni Pajarinen , Michael Muehlebach

Robotic imitation learning faces a fundamental trade-off between modeling long-horizon dependencies and enabling fine-grained closed-loop control. Existing fixed-frequency action chunking approaches struggle to achieve both. Building on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jiyao Zhang , Zimu Han , Junhan Wang , Xionghao Wu , Shihong Lin , Jinzhou Li , Hongwei Fan , Ruihai Wu , Dongjiang Li , Hao Dong

Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories. Recent diffusion-based methods show impressive performance in 3D robotic manipulation tasks, whereas they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanxing Lu , Zifeng Gao , Tianxing Chen , Wenxun Dai , Ziwei Wang , Wenbo Ding , Yansong Tang

Learning control policies to perform complex robotics tasks from human preference data presents significant challenges. On the one hand, the complexity of such tasks typically requires learning policies to perform a variety of subtasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Utsav Singh , Souradip Chakraborty , Wesley A. Suttle , Brian M. Sadler , Vinay P Namboodiri , Amrit Singh Bedi

Imitation learning frameworks that learn robot control policies from demonstrators' motions via hand-mounted demonstration interfaces have attracted increasing attention. However, due to differences in physical characteristics between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kei Takahashi , Hikaru Sasaki , Takamitsu Matsubara

While LLM-based agents excel at planning and executing long action sequences, their execution often remains inconsistent across trials, limiting reliability. Consolidating agent consistency requires distilling trial-error trajectories into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zihan Huang , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Qianqi Yan , Rohan Surana , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Lina Yao , Xin Eric Wang , Julian McAuley

We propose a theoretical framework for studying behavior cloning of complex expert demonstrations using generative modeling. Our framework invokes low-level controllers - either learned or implicit in position-command control - to stabilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Adam Block , Ali Jadbabaie , Daniel Pfrommer , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake

While robot learning has demonstrated promising results for enabling robots to automatically acquire new skills, a critical challenge in deploying learning-based systems is scale: acquiring enough data for the robot to effectively…

High-precision manipulation has always been a developmental goal for aerial manipulators. This paper investigates the kinematic coordinate control issue in aerial manipulators. We propose a predictive kinematic coordinate control method,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhengzhen Li , Jiahao Shen , Mengyu Ji , Huazi Cao , Shiyu Zhao

Modeling multimodal human behavior has been a key barrier to increasing the level of interaction between human and robot, particularly for collaborative tasks. Our key insight is that an effective, learned robot policy used for human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Eley Ng , Ziang Liu , Monroe Kennedy

Robotic motion generation methods using machine learning have been studied in recent years. Bilateral control-based imitation learning can imitate human motions using force information. By means of this method, variable speed motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuki Saigusa , Ayumu Sasagawa , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Robotic in-hand manipulation has been a long-standing challenge due to the complexity of modelling hand and object in contact and of coordinating finger motion for complex manipulation sequences. To address these challenges, the majority of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Tingguang Li , Krishnan Srinivasan , Max Qing-Hu Meng , Wenzhen Yuan , Jeannette Bohg

For contact-intensive tasks, the ability to generate policies that produce comprehensive tactile-aware motions is essential. However, existing data collection and skill learning systems for dexterous manipulation often suffer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xingyu Zhang , Chaofan Zhang , Boyue Zhang , Zhinan Peng , Shaowei Cui , Shuo Wang