Learning to pour with a robot arm combining goal and shape learning for dynamic movement primitives

M Tamosiunaite, B Nemec, A Ude… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2011 - Elsevier
When describing robot motion with dynamic movement primitives (DMPs), goal (trajectory
endpoint), shape and temporal scaling parameters are used. In reinforcement learning with …

Motion adaptation based on learning the manifold of task and dynamic movement primitive parameters

Y Cohen, O Bar-Shira, S Berman - Robotica, 2021 - cambridge.org
Dynamic movement primitives (DMP) are motion building blocks suitable for real-world
tasks. We suggest a methodology for learning the manifold of task and DMP parameters …

Task adaptation through exploration and action sequencing

B Nemec, M Tamošiūnaitė… - 2009 9th IEEE-RAS …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
General-purpose autonomous robots need to have the ability to sequence and adapt the
available sensorimotor knowledge, which is often given in the form of movement primitives …

Improving robot motor learning with negatively valenced reinforcement signals

N Navarro-Guerrero, RJ Lowe, S Wermter - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Both nociception and punishment signals have been used in robotics. However, the
potential for using these negatively valenced types of reinforcement learning signals for …

The effects on adaptive behaviour of negatively valenced signals in reinforcement learning

N Navarro-Guerrero, RJ Lowe… - 2017 Joint IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning algorithms and particularly those based on temporal-difference
learning are widely adopted and have been successfully applied to a number of problems …

Deterministic policy gradient based robotic path planning with continuous action spaces

S Paul, L Vig - … of the IEEE International Conference on …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Path planners for robotic manipulators often require precise target object locations based on
which inverse kinematics return the required joint-angles for approaching the object. This …

Coaching robots: online behavior learning from human subjective feedback

M Hirkoawa, K Suzuki - Innovations in Intelligent Machines-3 …, 2013 - Springer
This chapter describes a novel methodology for behavior learning of an agent, called
Coaching. The proposed method is an interactive and iterative learning method which …

Learning arm movements of target reaching for humanoid robot

Z Liu, F Hu, D Luo, X Wu - 2015 IEEE International Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The autonomous motor skill learning is crucial for the humanoid robot to adapt to various
tasks in complex environments and develop human-like behaviors. In this paper a method of …

Prenatal to postnatal transfer of motor skills through motor-compatible sensory representations

TA Mann, Y Choe - 2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How can sensory-motor skills developed as a fetus transfer to postnatal life? We investigate
a simulated reaching task by training controllers under prenatal conditions (ie confined …

Teaching a robot to perform tasks with voice commands

AC Tenorio-Gonzalez, EF Morales… - Advances in Artificial …, 2010 - Springer
The full deployment of service robots in daily activities will require the robot to adapt to the
needs of non-expert users, particularly, to learn how to perform new tasks from “natural” …