Search Results for author: Heni Ben Amor

Found 19 papers, 2 papers with code

"Task Success" is not Enough: Investigating the Use of Video-Language Models as Behavior Critics for Catching Undesirable Agent Behaviors

no code implementations6 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.

Automated Theorem Proving Game of Go

Learning and Blending Robot Hugging Behaviors in Time and Space

no code implementations3 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.

Imitation Learning

Local Repair of Neural Networks Using Optimization

no code implementations28 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.

Learning Predictive Models for Ergonomic Control of Prosthetic Devices

no code implementations13 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.

Model Predictive Control

Predictive Modeling of Periodic Behavior for Human-Robot Symbiotic Walking

no code implementations27 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.

Imitation Learning

DeepCrashTest: Turning Dashcam Videos into Virtual Crash Tests for Automated Driving Systems

no code implementations26 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.

Autonomous Vehicles

Assistive Relative Pose Estimation for On-orbit Assembly using Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations29 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.

feature selection Object +2

Clone Swarms: Learning to Predict and Control Multi-Robot Systems by Imitation

no code implementations5 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.

Imitation Learning of Robot Policies by Combining Language, Vision and Demonstration

no code implementations26 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.

Imitation Learning

Data-efficient Co-Adaptation of Morphology and Behaviour with Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations15 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.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Improved Exploration through Latent Trajectory Optimization in Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient

no code implementations15 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.

Continuous Control reinforcement-learning +1

Imitation Learning of Robot Policies using Language, Vision and Motion

no code implementations25 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.

Imitation Learning

Multimodal Dataset of Human-Robot Hugging Interaction

no code implementations16 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.

Learning Interactive Behaviors for Musculoskeletal Robots Using Bayesian Interaction Primitives

no code implementations15 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.

Response Generation

Probabilistic Multimodal Modeling for Human-Robot Interaction Tasks

2 code implementations14 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.

Information Maximizing Exploration with a Latent Dynamics Model

no code implementations4 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.

Continuous Control Policy Gradient Methods +3

Occlusion-Aware Object Localization, Segmentation and Pose Estimation

no code implementations27 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.

3D Pose Estimation Object +2

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