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We introduce online action-stacking, an inference-time wrapper for reinforcement learning policies that produces realistic air traffic control commands while allowing training on a much smaller discrete action space. Policies are trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ben Carvell , George De Ath , Eseoghene Benjamin , Richard Everson

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of two of the most impactful interventions in modern learning from demonstration in robotics and continuous control: the practice of action-chunking (predicting sequences of actions in open-loop)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Thomas T. Zhang , Daniel Pfrommer , Chaoyi Pan , Nikolai Matni , Max Simchowitz

Visual perception and navigation have emerged as major focus areas in the field of embodied artificial intelligence. We consider the task of image-goal navigation, where an agent is tasked to navigate to a goal specified by an image,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Nikhilanj Pelluri

Generative Behavior Cloning (GBC) is a simple yet effective framework for robot learning, particularly in multi-task settings. Recent GBC methods often employ diffusion policies with open-loop (OL) control, where actions are generated via a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Junhyuk So , Chiwoong Lee , Shinyoung Lee , Jungseul Ok , Eunhyeok Park

We present a simple and intuitive approach for interactive control of physically simulated characters. Our work builds upon generative adversarial networks (GAN) and reinforcement learning, and introduces an imitation learning framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Pei Xu , Ioannis Karamouzas

Generative model-based imitation learning methods have recently achieved strong results in learning high-complexity motor skills from human demonstrations. However, imitation learning of interactive policies that coordinate with humans in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Max M. Sun , Todd Murphey

Recent graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) have shown high performance in the field of human action recognition by using human skeleton poses. However, it fails to detect human-object interaction cases successfully due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hesham M. Shehata , Mohammad Abdolrahmani

We consider the Earth-Venus mass-optimal interplanetary transfer of a low-thrust spacecraft and show how the optimal guidance can be represented by deep networks in a large portion of the state space and to a high degree of accuracy.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Dario Izzo , Ekin Öztürk

We show that off-the-shelf text-based Transformers, with no additional training, can perform few-shot in-context visual imitation learning, mapping visual observations to action sequences that emulate the demonstrator's behaviour. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Norman Di Palo , Edward Johns

Low-thrust trajectory design and in-flight control remain two of the most challenging topics for new-generation satellite operations. Most of the solutions currently implemented are based on reference trajectories and lead to sub-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Carlos M. Casas , Belen Carro , Antonio Sanchez-Esguevillas

By 2050, the global demand for assistive care is expected to reach 3.5 billion people, far outpacing the availability of human caregivers. Existing robotic solutions remain expensive and require technical expertise, limiting accessibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dharunish Yugeswardeenoo

Deep reinforcement learning in continuous domains focuses on learning control policies that map states to distributions over actions that ideally concentrate on the optimal choices in each step. In multi-agent navigation problems, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Chenning Yu , Hongzhan Yu , Sicun Gao

As the number of spacecraft in orbit continues to increase, it is becoming more challenging for human operators to manage each mission. As a result, autonomous control methods are needed to reduce this burden on operators. One method of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Kyle Dunlap , Nathaniel Hamilton , Kerianne L. Hobbs

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

The intrinsic compliance and high degree of freedom (DoF) of redundant soft manipulators facilitate safe interaction and flexible task execution. However, effective kinematic control remains highly challenging, as it must handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yinan Meng , Kun Qian , Jiong Yang , Renbo Su , Zhenhong Li , Charlie C. L. Wang

Routing vessels through narrow and dynamic waterways is challenging due to changing environmental conditions and operational constraints. Existing vessel-routing studies typically fail to generalize across multiple origin-destination pairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran , Dilith Jayakody , Samruddhi Mulay , Anand Lo , Md Mahbub Alam , Gabriel Spadon

Imitation learning is a well-established approach for machine-learning-based control. However, its applicability depends on having access to demonstrations, which are often expensive to collect and/or suboptimal for solving the task. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jon Goikoetxea , Jesús F. Palacián

Training large language models (LLMs) as autonomous agents often begins with imitation learning, but it only teaches agents what to do without understanding why: agents never contrast successful actions against suboptimal alternatives and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weize Liu , Minghui Liu , Sy-Tuyen Ho , Souradip Chakraborty , Xiyao Wang , Furong Huang

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

In this work we explore a new approach for robots to teach themselves about the world simply by observing it. In particular we investigate the effectiveness of learning task-agnostic representations for continuous control tasks. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Debidatta Dwibedi , Jonathan Tompson , Corey Lynch , Pierre Sermanet