A review of robot learning for manipulation: Challenges, representations, and algorithms

O Kroemer, S Niekum, G Konidaris - Journal of machine learning research, 2021 - jmlr.org
A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Multipolicy decision-making for autonomous driving via changepoint-based behavior prediction: Theory and experiment

E Galceran, AG Cunningham, RM Eustice, E Olson - Autonomous Robots, 2017 - Springer
This paper reports on an integrated inference and decision-making approach for
autonomous driving that models vehicle behavior for both our vehicle and nearby vehicles …

Screwnet: Category-independent articulation model estimation from depth images using screw theory

A Jain, R Lioutikov, C Chuck… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots in human environments will need to interact with a wide variety of articulated objects
such as cabinets, drawers, and dishwashers while assisting humans in performing day-to …

Bottom-up skill discovery from unsegmented demonstrations for long-horizon robot manipulation

Y Zhu, P Stone, Y Zhu - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We tackle real-world long-horizon robot manipulation tasks through skill discovery. We
present a bottom-up approach to learning a library of reusable skills from unsegmented …

Appld: Adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration

X Xiao, B Liu, G Warnell, J Fink… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing autonomous robot navigation systems allow robots to move from one point to
another in a collision-free manner. However, when facing new environments, these systems …

Appl: Adaptive planner parameter learning

X Xiao, Z Wang, Z Xu, B Liu, G Warnell… - Robotics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
While current autonomous navigation systems allow robots to successfully drive themselves
from one point to another in specific environments, they typically require extensive manual …

Learning to generalize kinematic models to novel objects

B Abbatematteo, S Tellex, G Konidaris - … of the 3rd Conference on Robot …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Robots operating in human environments must be capable of interacting with a wide variety
of articulated objects such as cabinets, refrigerators, and drawers. Existing approaches …

Interpretable goal-based prediction and planning for autonomous driving

SV Albrecht, C Brewitt, J Wilhelm… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an integrated prediction and planning system for autonomous driving which
uses rational inverse planning to recognise the goals of other vehicles. Goal recognition …

Ultimate limits for quickest quantum change-point detection

M Fanizza, C Hirche, J Calsamiglia - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Detecting abrupt changes in data streams is crucial because they are often triggered by
events that have important consequences if left unattended. Quickest change-point detection …

Distributional depth-based estimation of object articulation models

A Jain, S Giguere, R Lioutikov… - Conference on Robot …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose a method that efficiently learns distributions over articulation models directly
from depth images without the need to know articulation model categories a priori. By …