no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Lin Guan, Yifan Zhou, Denis Liu, Yantian Zha, Heni Ben Amor, Subbarao Kambhampati
Large-scale generative models are shown to be useful for sampling meaningful candidate solutions, yet they often overlook task constraints and user preferences.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2022 • Michael Drolet, Joseph Campbell, Heni Ben Amor
We introduce an imitation learning-based physical human-robot interaction algorithm capable of predicting appropriate robot responses in complex interactions involving a superposition of multiple interactions.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2021 • Keyvan Majd, Siyu Zhou, Heni Ben Amor, Georgios Fainekos, Sriram Sankaranarayanan
In this paper, we propose a framework to repair a pre-trained feed-forward neural network (NN) to satisfy a set of properties.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2020 • Geoffrey Clark, Joseph Campbell, Heni Ben Amor
We present Model-Predictive Interaction Primitives -- a robot learning framework for assistive motion in human-machine collaboration tasks which explicitly accounts for biomechanical impact on the human musculoskeletal system.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Mariano Phielipp, Stefan Lee, Chitta Baral, Heni Ben Amor
Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots.
no code implementations • 27 May 2020 • Geoffrey Clark, Joseph Campbell, Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi, Wenlong Zhang, Heni Ben Amor
We propose in this paper Periodic Interaction Primitives - a probabilistic framework that can be used to learn compact models of periodic behavior.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2020 • Sai Krishna Bashetty, Heni Ben Amor, Georgios Fainekos
The goal of this paper is to generate simulations with real-world collision scenarios for training and testing autonomous vehicles.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2020 • Shubham Sonawani, Ryan Alimo, Renaud Detry, Daniel Jeong, Andrew Hess, Heni Ben Amor
Accurate real-time pose estimation of spacecraft or object in space is a key capability necessary for on-orbit spacecraft servicing and assembly tasks.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2019 • Siyu Zhou, Mariano Phielipp, Jorge A. Sefair, Sara I. Walker, Heni Ben Amor
In this paper, we propose SwarmNet -- a neural network architecture that can learn to predict and imitate the behavior of an observed swarm of agents in a centralized manner.
no code implementations • 26 Nov 2019 • Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Mariano Phielipp, Chitta Baral, Heni Ben Amor
In this work we propose a novel end-to-end imitation learning approach which combines natural language, vision, and motion information to produce an abstract representation of a task, which in turn is used to synthesize specific motion controllers at run-time.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2019 • Kevin Sebastian Luck, Heni Ben Amor, Roberto Calandra
Key to our approach is the possibility of leveraging previously tested morphologies and behaviors to estimate the performance of new candidate morphologies.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2019 • Kevin Sebastian Luck, Mel Vecerik, Simon Stepputtis, Heni Ben Amor, Jonathan Scholz
This work evaluates the use of model-based trajectory optimization methods used for exploration in Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient when trained on a latent image embedding.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Siyu Zhou, Chaitanya Rajasekhar, Mariano J. Phielipp, Heni Ben Amor
We propose an implementation of GNN that predicts and imitates the motion be- haviors from observed swarm trajectory data.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Mariano Phielipp, Chitta Baral, Heni Ben Amor
In this work we propose a novel end-to-end imitation learning approach which combines natural language, vision, and motion information to produce an abstract representation of a task, which in turn can be used to synthesize specific motion controllers at run-time.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2019 • Kunal Bagewadi, Joseph Campbell, Heni Ben Amor
33 people were given minimal instructions to hug the humanoid robot for as natural hugging interaction as possible.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2019 • Joseph Campbell, Arne Hitzmann, Simon Stepputtis, Shuhei Ikemoto, Koh Hosoda, Heni Ben Amor
Musculoskeletal robots that are based on pneumatic actuation have a variety of properties, such as compliance and back-drivability, that render them particularly appealing for human-robot collaboration.
2 code implementations • 14 Aug 2019 • Joseph Campbell, Simon Stepputtis, Heni Ben Amor
Human-robot interaction benefits greatly from multimodal sensor inputs as they enable increased robustness and generalization accuracy.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2018 • Trevor Barron, Oliver Obst, Heni Ben Amor
A key insight of our approach is that this dynamics model can be learned in the latent feature space of a value function, representing the dynamics of the agent and the environment.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2015 • Samarth Brahmbhatt, Heni Ben Amor, Henrik Christensen
We present a learning approach for localization and segmentation of objects in an image in a manner that is robust to partial occlusion.