Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey

M Saveriano, FJ Abu-Dakka… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Biological systems, including human beings, have the innate ability to perform complex
tasks in a versatile and agile manner. Researchers in sensorimotor control have aimed to …

A survey on policy search algorithms for learning robot controllers in a handful of trials

K Chatzilygeroudis, V Vassiliades… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most policy search (PS) algorithms require thousands of training episodes to find an
effective policy, which is often infeasible with a physical robot. This survey article focuses on …

One-shot visual imitation learning via meta-learning

C Finn, T Yu, T Zhang, P Abbeel… - Conference on robot …, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
In order for a robot to be a generalist that can perform a wide range of jobs, it must be able to
acquire a wide variety of skills quickly and efficiently in complex unstructured environments …

Preparing for the unknown: Learning a universal policy with online system identification

W Yu, J Tan, CK Liu, G Turk - arxiv preprint arxiv:1702.02453, 2017 - arxiv.org
We present a new method of learning control policies that successfully operate under
unknown dynamic models. We create such policies by leveraging a large number of training …

Learning control Lyapunov function to ensure stability of dynamical system-based robot reaching motions

SM Khansari-Zadeh, A Billard - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
We consider an imitation learning approach to model robot point-to-point (also known as
discrete or reaching) movements with a set of autonomous Dynamical Systems (DS). Each …

[BOOK][B] Learning to learn with gradients

CB Finn - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Humans have a remarkable ability to learn new concepts from only a few examples and
quickly adapt to unforeseen circumstances. To do so, they build upon their prior experience …

Learning parameterized skills

B Da Silva, G Konidaris, A Barto - arxiv preprint arxiv:1206.6398, 2012 - arxiv.org
We introduce a method for constructing skills capable of solving tasks drawn from a
distribution of parameterized reinforcement learning problems. The method draws example …

Inverse KKT: Learning cost functions of manipulation tasks from demonstrations

P Englert, NA Vien, M Toussaint - The International Journal …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Inverse optimal control (IOC) assumes that demonstrations are the solution to an optimal
control problem with unknown underlying costs, and extracts parameters of these underlying …

Learning task-parameterized dynamic movement primitives using mixture of GMMs

A Pervez, D Lee - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2018 - Springer
Task-parameterized skill learning aims at adaptive motion encoding to new situations. While
existing approaches for task-parameterized skill learning have demonstrated good …

Toward orientation learning and adaptation in cartesian space

Y Huang, FJ Abu-Dakka, J Silvério… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a promising branch of robotics, imitation learning emerges as an important way to
transfer human skills to robots, where human demonstrations represented in Cartesian or …