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A challenge in robot grasping is to achieve task-grasping which is to select a grasp that is advantageous to the success of tasks before and after grasps. One of the frameworks to address this difficulty is Learning-from-Observation (LfO),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daichi Saito , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Jun Takamatsu , Hideki Koike , Katsushi Ikeuchi

We present a novel method for learning from demonstration 6-D tasks that can be modeled as a sequence of linear motions and compliances. The focus of this paper is the learning of a single linear primitive, many of which can be sequenced to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Markku Suomalainen , Fares J. Abu-Dakka , Ville Kyrki

We present a framework for learning human user models from joint-action demonstrations that enables the robot to compute a robust policy for a collaborative task with a human. The learning takes place completely automatically, without any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Stefanos Nikolaidis , Keren Gu , Ramya Ramakrishnan , Julie Shah

With growing access to versatile robotics, it is beneficial for end users to be able to teach robots tasks without needing to code a control policy. One possibility is to teach the robot through successful task executions. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Aleksandra Kalinowska , Ahalya Prabhakar , Kathleen Fitzsimons , Todd Murphey

Learning from demonstrations enables experts to teach robots complex tasks using interfaces such as kinesthetic teaching, joystick control, and sim-to-real transfer. However, these interfaces often constrain the expert's ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinhu Li , Ayush Jain , Zhaojing Yang , Yigit Korkmaz , Erdem Bıyık

While significant progress has been made on understanding hand-object interactions in computer vision, it is still very challenging for robots to perform complex dexterous manipulation. In this paper, we propose a new platform and pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yuzhe Qin , Yueh-Hua Wu , Shaowei Liu , Hanwen Jiang , Ruihan Yang , Yang Fu , Xiaolong Wang

We introduce a novel system for human-to-robot trajectory transfer that enables robots to manipulate objects by learning from human demonstration videos. The system consists of four modules. The first module is a data collection module that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sai Haneesh Allu , Jishnu Jaykumar P , Ninad Khargonkar , Tyler Summers , Jian Yao , Yu Xiang

Learning actions from human demonstration video is promising for intelligent robotic systems. Extracting the exact section and re-observing the extracted video section in detail is important for imitating complex skills because human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Iori Yanokura , Naoki Wake , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Katsushi Ikeuchi , Masayuki Inaba

A seamless integration of robots into human environments requires robots to learn how to use existing human tools. Current approaches for learning tool manipulation skills mostly rely on expert demonstrations provided in the target robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kateryna Zorina , Justin Carpentier , Josef Sivic , Vladimír Petrík

Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning from a raw video pixels of a human, even when there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Annie Xie , Sudeep Dasari , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Teaching robots novel behaviors typically requires motion demonstrations via teleoperation or kinaesthetic teaching, that is, physically guiding the robot. While recent work has explored using human sketches to specify desired behaviors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 William Barron , Xiaoxiang Dong , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

This paper presents a novel Learning from Demonstration (LfD) method that uses neural fields to learn new skills efficiently and accurately. It achieves this by utilizing a shared embedding to learn both scene and motion representations in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Ahmet Tekden , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Yasemin Bekiroglu

Imitation Learning (IL) has emerged as a powerful approach in robotics, allowing robots to acquire new skills by mimicking human actions. Despite its potential, the data collection process for IL remains a significant challenge due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hamidreza Kasaei , Mohammadreza Kasaei

In many contact-rich tasks, force sensing plays an essential role in adapting the motion to the physical properties of the manipulated object. To enable robots to capture the underlying distribution of object properties necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Marina Y. Aoyama , João Moura , Namiko Saito , Sethu Vijayakumar

The ability to learn from human demonstration endows robots with the ability to automate various tasks. However, directly learning from human demonstration is challenging since the structure of the human hand can be very different from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xingyu Liu , Deepak Pathak , Kris M. Kitani

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills often requires collecting hundreds of demonstrations using wearables or teleoperation, a process that is challenging to scale. Videos of human-object interactions are easier to collect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Olivia Y. Lee , C. Karen Liu , Jeannette Bohg

The goal of programmatic Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is to learn a policy in a programming language that can be used to control a robot's behavior from a set of user demonstrations. This paper presents a new programmatic LfD algorithm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Noah Patton , Kia Rahmani , Meghana Missula , Joydeep Biswas , Işil Dillig

We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

Human-robot collaboration has benefited users with higher efficiency towards interactive tasks. Nevertheless, most collaborative schemes rely on complicated human-machine interfaces, which might lack the requisite intuitiveness compared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haolin Fei , Stefano Tedeschi , Yanpei Huang , Andrew Kennedy , Ziwei Wang

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) algorithms enable humans to teach new skills to robots through demonstrations. The learned skills can be robustly reproduced from the identical or near boundary conditions (e.g., initial point). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Brendan Hertel , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh