Title
A Probabilistic Framework For Learning Geometry-Based Robot Manipulation Skills
Abstract
Programming robots to perform complex manipulation tasks is difficult because many tasks require sophisticated controllers that may rely on data such as manipulability ellipsoids, stiffness/damping and inertia matrices. Such data are naturally represented as Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices to capture specific geometric characteristics of the data, which increases the complexity of hard-coding them. To alleviate this difficulty, the Learning from Demonstration (LfD) paradigm can be used in order to learn robot manipulation skills with specific geometric constraints encapsulated in SPD matrices.Learned skills often need to be adapted when they are applied to new situations. While existing techniques can adapt Cartesian and joint space trajectories described by various desired points, the adaptation of motion skills encapsulated in SPD matrices remains an open problem. In this paper, we introduce a new LID framework that can learn robot manipulation skills encapsulated in SPD matrices from expert demonstrations and adapt them to new situations defined by new start-, via- and end-matrices. The proposed approach leverages Kernelized Movement Primitives (KMPs) to generate SPD-based robot manipulation skills that smoothly adapt the demonstrations to conform to new constraints. We validate the proposed framework using a couple of simulations in addition to a real experiment scenario. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.robot.2021.103761
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Learning from demonstration, Variable impedance, Robot learning, Manipulability ellipsoids, Riemannian manifolds
Journal
141
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0921-8890
2
0.38
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fares J. Abu-Dakka1518.47
Yanlong Huang2235.54
João Silvério320.38
V. Kyrki465261.79