Robots that use language

S Tellex, N Gopalan, H Kress-Gazit… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article surveys the use of natural language in robotics from a robotics point of view. To
use human language, robots must map words to aspects of the physical world, mediated by …

[BOG][B] Robot learning from human teachers

S Chernova, AL Thomaz - 2022 - books.google.com
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) explores techniques for learning a task policy from
examples provided by a human teacher. The field of LfD has grown into an extensive body …

Tell me dave: Context-sensitive grounding of natural language to manipulation instructions

DK Misra, J Sung, K Lee… - The International Journal …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
It is important for a robot to be able to interpret natural language commands given by a
human. In this paper, we consider performing a sequence of mobile manipulation tasks with …

Gated-attention architectures for task-oriented language grounding

DS Chaplot, KM Sathyendra, RK Pasumarthi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
To perform tasks specified by natural language instructions, autonomous agents need to
extract semantically meaningful representations of language and map it to visual elements …

Interactive task learning

JE Laird, K Gluck, J Anderson, KD Forbus… - IEEE Intelligent …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a new research area called interactive task learning (ITL), in which an
agent actively tries to learn not just how to perform a task better but the actual definition of a …

Discrete factorial representations as an abstraction for goal conditioned reinforcement learning

R Islam, H Zang, A Goyal, A Lamb… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising direction for training agents that
are capable of solving multiple tasks and reach a diverse set of objectives. How to\textit …

Learning symbolic representations of actions from human demonstrations

SR Ahmadzadeh, A Paikan… - … on Robotics and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a robot learning approach is proposed which integrates Visuospatial Skill
Learning, Imitation Learning, and conventional planning methods. In our approach, the …

Preference learning in assistive robotics: Observational repeated inverse reinforcement learning

B Woodworth, F Ferrari, TE Zosa… - Machine learning for …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
As robots become more affordable and more common in everyday life, particularly in
assistive contexts, there will be an ever-increasing demand for adaptive behavior that is …

Discrete compositional representations as an abstraction for goal conditioned reinforcement learning

R Islam, H Zang, A Goyal, AM Lamb… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising direction for training agents that
are capable of solving multiple tasks and reach a diverse set of objectives. How to\textit …

A syntactic approach to robot imitation learning using probabilistic activity grammars

K Lee, Y Su, TK Kim, Y Demiris - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper describes a syntactic approach to imitation learning that captures important task
structures in the form of probabilistic activity grammars from a reasonably small number of …