Title
From Key Positions to Optimal Basis Functions for Probabilistic Adaptive Control
Abstract
In the field of Learning from Demonstration (LfD), movement primitives learned from full trajectories provide mechanisms to generalize a demonstrated skill to unseen situations. Key position demonstrations, requiring the user to provide only a sequence of via-points rather than a complete trajectory, have been shown to be an appealing alternative. In this letter, we investigate the synergy between learning adaptive movement primitives and key position demonstrations. We exploit a linear optimal control formulation to (1) recover the timing information of the skill missing from key position demonstrations, and to (2) infer low-effort movements on-the-fly. We evaluate the performance of the proposed approach in a user study where 16 novice users taught a 7-DoF robot manipulator, showing improved learning efficiency and trajectory smoothness. We further showcase the effectiveness of the approach for tasks that require precise demonstrations and on-the-fly movement adaptation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LRA.2022.3146614
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Learning from demonstration, imitation learning, machine learning for robot control
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2377-3766
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julius Jankowski100.34
Mattia Racca200.34
Sylvain Calinon31897117.63