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Imitation learning is a popular paradigm to teach robots new tasks, but collecting robot demonstrations through teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching is tedious and time-consuming. In contrast, directly demonstrating a task using our human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nick Heppert , Minh Quang Nguyen , Abhinav Valada

The ability to transfer a policy from one environment to another is a promising avenue for efficient robot learning in realistic settings where task supervision is not available. This can allow us to take advantage of environments well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Grace Zhang , Linghan Zhong , Youngwoon Lee , Joseph J. Lim

In mobile health (mHealth), reinforcement learning algorithms that adapt to one's context without learning personalized policies might fail to distinguish between the needs of individuals. Yet the high amount of noise due to the in situ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sabina Tomkins , Peng Liao , Predrag Klasnja , Serena Yeung , Susan Murphy

Imitation Learning is a promising paradigm for learning complex robot manipulation skills by reproducing behavior from human demonstrations. However, manipulation tasks often contain bottleneck regions that require a sequence of precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Ajay Mandlekar , Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

This paper presents policy-based motion planning for robotic systems. The motion planning literature has been mostly focused on open-loop trajectory planning which is followed by tracking online. In contrast, we solve the problem of path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Guoxiang Zhao , Devesh K. Jha , Yebin Wang , Minghui Zhu

Mobile manipulation is a fundamental capability that enables robots to interact in expansive environments such as homes and factories. Most existing approaches follow a two-stage paradigm, where the robot first navigates to a docking point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ziyu Shan , Yuheng Zhou , Gaoyuan Wu , Ziheng Ji , Zhenyu Wu , Ziwei Wang

Diffusion policies trained via offline behavioral cloning have recently gained traction in robotic motion generation. While effective, these policies typically require a large number of trainable parameters. This model size affords powerful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiatao Sun , Shuo Yang , Yinxing Chen , Francis Fan , Yiyan Liang , Daniel Rakita

Imitation learning in robotics faces significant challenges in generalization due to the complexity of robotic environments and the high cost of data collection. We introduce RoCoDA, a novel method that unifies the concepts of invariance,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ezra Ameperosa , Jeremy A. Collins , Mrinal Jain , Animesh Garg

Imitation learning (IL) aims to enable robots to perform tasks autonomously by observing a few human demonstrations. Recently, a variant of IL, called In-Context IL, utilized off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) as instant policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hanbit Oh , Andrea M. Salcedo-Vázquez , Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar , Yukiyasu Domae

The paper presents a complete pipeline for learning continuous motion control policies for a mobile robot when only a non-differentiable physics simulator of robot-terrain interactions is available. The multi-modal state estimation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Pecka , Karel Zimmermann , Matěj Petrlík , Tomáš Svoboda

We present a fully autonomous real-world RL framework for mobile manipulation that can learn policies without extensive instrumentation or human supervision. This is enabled by 1) task-relevant autonomy, which guides exploration towards…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Russell Mendonca , Emmanuel Panov , Bernadette Bucher , Jiuguang Wang , Deepak Pathak

Visual imitation learning provides a framework for learning complex manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations. However, current interfaces for imitation such as kinesthetic teaching or teleoperation prohibitively restrict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Sarah Young , Dhiraj Gandhi , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta , Pieter Abbeel , Lerrel Pinto

The Internet of Things (IoT) bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, enabling seamless interaction with real-world objects via the Internet. However, IoT systems face significant challenges in ensuring efficient data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Waleed Bin Qaim , Oznur Ozkasap , Rabia Qadar , Moncef Gabbouj

In recent years, humanoid robots have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry due to their high adaptability to environments and human-like characteristics. With the rapid advancement of reinforcement learning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Qiang Zhang , Gang Han , Jingkai Sun , Wen Zhao , Chenghao Sun , Jiahang Cao , Jiaxu Wang , Yijie Guo , Renjing Xu

We present relay policy learning, a method for imitation and reinforcement learning that can solve multi-stage, long-horizon robotic tasks. This general and universally-applicable, two-phase approach consists of an imitation learning stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Abhishek Gupta , Vikash Kumar , Corey Lynch , Sergey Levine , Karol Hausman

Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data. While human demonstrations (e.g., through teleoperation) serve as the standard source for expert behaviors, acquiring such…

We focus on developing efficient and reliable policy optimization strategies for robot learning with real-world data. In recent years, policy gradient methods have emerged as a promising paradigm for training control policies in simulation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tyler Westenbroek , Jacob Levy , David Fridovich-Keil

Despite rapid progress in autonomous robotics, executing complex or long-horizon tasks remains a fundamental challenge. Most current approaches follow an open-loop paradigm with limited reasoning and no feedback, resulting in poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xinyi Liu , Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Zewei Zhou , Julius Wirbel , Bahram Zarrin , Roberto Galeazzi

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms typically distill experience into parametric behavior policies to mimic expert demonstrations. However, with limited demonstrations, existing methods often struggle to generate accurate actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuying Zhang , Wenyan Yang , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki , Joni Pajarinen