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Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approaches empower end-users to teach robots novel tasks via demonstrations of the desired behaviors, democratizing access to robotics. However, current LfD frameworks are not capable of fast adaptation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Letian Chen , Sravan Jayanthi , Rohan Paleja , Daniel Martin , Viacheslav Zakharov , Matthew Gombolay

Dynamical System (DS) based Learning from Demonstration (LfD) allows learning of reactive motion policies with stability and convergence guarantees from a few trajectories. Yet, current DS learning techniques lack the flexibility to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tianyu Li , Nadia Figueroa

Personal robots assisting humans must perform complex manipulation tasks that are typically difficult to specify in traditional motion planning pipelines, where multiple objectives must be met and the high-level context be taken into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Hejia Zhang , Eric Heiden , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Joseph J. Lim , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Many advanced Learning from Demonstration (LfD) methods consider the decomposition of complex, real-world tasks into simpler sub-tasks. By reusing the corresponding sub-policies within and between tasks, they provide training data for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Kyriacos Shiarlis , Markus Wulfmeier , Sasha Salter , Shimon Whiteson , Ingmar Posner

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

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

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a useful paradigm for training policies that solve tasks involving complex motions, such as those encountered in robotic manipulation. In practice, the successful application of LfD requires overcoming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Peter David Fagan , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Learning from demonstration (LfD) has the potential to greatly increase the applicability of robotic manipulators in modern industrial applications. Recent progress in LfD methods have put more emphasis in learning robustness than in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Fouad Sukkar , Victor Hernandez Moreno , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Jochen Deuse

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

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

Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) allows robots to learn skills from human users, but its effectiveness can suffer due to sub-optimal teaching, especially from untrained demonstrators. Active LfD aims to improve this by letting robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Muhan Hou , Koen Hindriks , A. E. Eiben , Kim Baraka

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) seeks to democratize robotics by enabling non-roboticist end-users to teach robots to perform a task by providing a human demonstration. However, modern LfD techniques, e.g. inverse reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Letian Chen , Rohan Paleja , Matthew Gombolay

Current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems for skill teaching are fragmented, and existing approaches in the literature do not offer a cohesive framework that is simultaneously efficient, intuitive, and universally safe. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zi-Qi Yang , Mehrdad R. Kermani

This article proposes a method for learning and robotic replication of dynamic collaborative tasks from offline videos. The objective is to extend the concept of learning from demonstration (LfD) to dynamic scenarios, benefiting from widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Francesco Iodice , Yuqiang Wu , Wansoo Kim , Fei Zhao , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) enables robots to acquire versatile skills by learning motion policies from human demonstrations. It endows users with an intuitive interface to transfer new skills to robots without the need for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianyong Sun , Jens Kober , Michael Gienger , Jihong Zhu

Dynamical system (DS)-based learning from demonstration (LfD) is a powerful tool for generating motion plans in the operation (`task') space of robotic systems. However, the realization of the generated motion plans is often compromised by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Eshika Pathak , Ahmed Aboudonia , Sandeep Banik , Naira Hovakimyan

Over the past few years, there have been numerous works towards advancing the generalization capability of robots, among which learning from demonstrations (LfD) has drawn much attention by virtue of its user-friendly and data-efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Shaokang Wu , Yijin Wang , Yanlong Huang

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) stands as an efficient framework for imparting human-like skills to robots. Nevertheless, designing an LfD framework capable of seamlessly imitating, generalizing, and reacting to disturbances for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yan Zhang , Teng Xue , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

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

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