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Automatically generating agile whole-body motions for legged and humanoid robots remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. While numerous trajectory optimization approaches have been proposed, there is no clear guideline on how the…

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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

Learning from demonstrations is a promising paradigm for transferring knowledge to robots. However, learning mobile manipulation tasks directly from a human teacher is a complex problem as it requires learning models of both the overall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Tim Welschehold , Nichola Abdo , Christian Dornhege , Wolfram Burgard

Practical use of robotic manipulators made from soft materials requires generating and executing complex motions. We present the first approach for generating trajectories of a thermally-actuated soft robotic manipulator. Based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Anthony Wertz , Andrew P. Sabelhaus , Carmel Majidi

Rapid robot motion generation is critical in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) systems, as robots need to respond to dynamic environments in real time by continuously observing their surroundings and replanning their motions to ensure both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sibo Tian , Minghui Zheng , Xiao Liang

Generative models have become increasingly powerful tools for robot motion generation, enabling flexible and multimodal trajectory generation across various tasks. Yet, most existing approaches remain limited in handling multiple types of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Zewen Yang , Xiaobing Dai , Dian Yu , Zhijun Li , Majid Khadiv , Sandra Hirche , Sami Haddadin

Humans coordinate the abundant degrees of freedom (DoFs) of hands to dexterously perform tasks in everyday life. We imitate human strategies to advance the dexterity of multi-DoF robotic hands. Specifically, we enable a robot hand to grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kunpeng Yao , Aude Billard

Generating natural hand-object interactions in 3D is challenging as the resulting hand and object motions are expected to be physically plausible and semantically meaningful. Furthermore, generalization to unseen objects is hindered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sammy Christen , Shreyas Hampali , Fadime Sener , Edoardo Remelli , Tomas Hodan , Eric Sauser , Shugao Ma , Bugra Tekin

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) systems are commonly used to teach robots new tasks by generating a set of skills from user-provided demonstrations. These skills can then be sequenced by planning algorithms to execute complex tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Maximilian Diehl , Tathagata Chakraborti , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Human motion synthesis is a fundamental task in computer animation. Recent methods based on diffusion models or GPT structure demonstrate commendable performance but exhibit drawbacks in terms of slow sampling speeds and error accumulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Wenzhe Yin , Pingchuan Ma , Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Yuki M Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Pascal Mettes , Bjorn Ommer , Cees G. M. Snoek

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is commonly considered to be a natural and intuitive way to allow novice users to teach motor skills to robots. However, it is important to acknowledge that the effectiveness of LfD is heavily dependent on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Marina Y. Aoyama , Matthew Howard

Motion is a fundamental cue for scene analysis and human activity understan- ding in videos. It can be encoded in trajectories for tracking objects and for action recognition, or in form of flow to address behaviour analysis in crowded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Eduardo M. Pereira , Jaime S. Cardoso , Ricardo Morla

In robotics, Learning from Demonstration (LfD) aims to transfer skills to robots by using multiple demonstrations of the same task. These demonstrations are recorded and processed to extract a consistent skill representation. This process…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Giovanni Braglia , Davide Tebaldi , André Eugenio Lazzaretti , Luigi Biagiotti

Safe and computationally efficient local planning for mobile robots in dense, unstructured human crowds remains a fundamental challenge. Moreover, ensuring that robot trajectories are similar to how a human moves will increase the…

Learning from videos offers a promising path toward generalist robots by providing rich visual and temporal priors beyond what real robot datasets contain. While existing video generative models produce impressive visual predictions, they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Hung-Chieh Fang , Kuo-Han Hung , Chu-Rong Chen , Po-Jung Chou , Chun-Kai Yang , Po-Chen Ko , Yu-Chiang Wang , Yueh-Hua Wu , Min-Hung Chen , Shao-Hua Sun

This paper presents a -- Learning from Demonstration -- method to perform robot movement trajectories that can be defined as you go. This way unstructured tasks can be performed, without the need to know exactly all the tasks and start and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Luis Trucios , Mahdi Tavakoli , Kim Adams

We present a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) framework that achieves one-shot generalization in multi-stage, contact-rich manipulation tasks. Central to our approach is the utilization of environmental constraints as the inductive bias.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Li , Oliver Brock

Recent advances have shown that video generation models can enhance robot learning by deriving effective robot actions through inverse dynamics. However, these methods heavily depend on the quality of generated data and struggle with…

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In recent years, generative models have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse fields, including images, videos, language, and decision-making. By applying powerful generative models such as flow-based models to reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jifeng Hu , Sili Huang , Siyuan Guo , Zhaogeng Liu , Li Shen , Lichao Sun , Hechang Chen , Yi Chang , Dacheng Tao

Human-robot handover is a fundamental yet challenging task in human-robot interaction and collaboration. Recently, remarkable progressions have been made in human-to-robot handovers of unknown objects by using learning-based grasp…