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A modular approach to learning manipulation strategies from human demonstration

Huang, Bidan
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Li, Miao  
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De Souza, Ravin Luis  
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2016
Autonomous Robots

Object manipulation is a challenging task for robotics, as the physics involved in object interaction is complex and hard to express analytically. Here we introduce a modular approach for learning a manipulation strategy from human demonstration. Firstly we record a human performing a task that requires an adaptive control strategy in different conditions, i.e. different task contexts. We then perform modular decomposition of the control strategy, using phases of the recorded actions to guide segmentation. Each module represents a part of the strategy, encoded as a pair of forward and inverse models. All modules contribute to the final control policy; their recommendations are integrated via a system of weighting based on their own estimated error in the current task context. We validate our approach by demonstrating it, both in a simulation for clarity, and on a real robot platform to demonstrate robustness and capacity to generalise. The robot task is opening bottle caps. We show that our approach can modularize an adaptive control strategy and generate appropriate motor commands for the robot to accomplish the complete task, even for novel bottles.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s10514-015-9501-9
Web of Science ID

WOS:000374253200008

Author(s)
Huang, Bidan
Li, Miao  
De Souza, Ravin Luis  
Bryson, Joanna J.
Billard, Aude  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Published in
Autonomous Robots
Volume

40

Issue

5

Start page

903

End page

927

Subjects

Learning by demonstration

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Manipulation

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Modular approach

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REVIEWED

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July 19, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/127668
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