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On Designing a Learning Robot: Improving Morphology for Enhanced Task Performance and Learning
Maks Sorokin, Chuyuan Fu, Jie Tan +5
As robots become more prevalent, optimizing their design for better performance and efficiency is becoming increasingly important. However, current robot design practices overlook…
Asking for Help: Failure Prediction in Behavioral Cloning through Value Approximation
Cem Gokmen, Daniel Ho, Mohi Khansari
Recent progress in end-to-end Imitation Learning approaches has shown promising results and generalization capabilities on mobile manipulation tasks. Such models are seeing increas…
Leveraging Haptic Feedback to Improve Data Quality and Quantity for Deep Imitation Learning Models
Catie Cuan, Allison Okamura, Mohi Khansari
Learning from demonstration is a proven technique to teach robots new skills. Data quality and quantity play a critical role in the performance of models trained using data collect…
Practical Imitation Learning in the Real World via Task Consistency Loss
Mohi Khansari, Daniel Ho, Yuqing Du +6
Recent work in visual end-to-end learning for robotics has shown the promise of imitation learning across a variety of tasks. Such approaches are expensive both because they requir…
Bayesian Imitation Learning for End-to-End Mobile Manipulation
Yuqing Du, Daniel Ho, Alexander A. Alemi +2
In this work we investigate and demonstrate benefits of a Bayesian approach to imitation learning from multiple sensor inputs, as applied to the task of opening office doors with a…
BC-Z: Zero-Shot Task Generalization with Robotic Imitation Learning
Eric Jang, Alex Irpan, Mohi Khansari +5
In this paper, we study the problem of enabling a vision-based robotic manipulation system to generalize to novel tasks, a long-standing challenge in robot learning. We approach th…
AW-Opt: Learning Robotic Skills with Imitation and Reinforcement at Scale
Yao Lu, Karol Hausman, Yevgen Chebotar +8
Robotic skills can be learned via imitation learning (IL) using user-provided demonstrations, or via reinforcement learning (RL) using large amountsof autonomously collected experi…
RetinaGAN: An Object-aware Approach to Sim-to-Real Transfer
Daniel Ho, Kanishka Rao, Zhuo Xu +3
The success of deep reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL) in vision-based robotic manipulation typically hinges on the expense of large scale data collection. Wit…
RL-CycleGAN: Reinforcement Learning Aware Simulation-To-Real
Kanishka Rao, Chris Harris, Alex Irpan +3
Deep neural network based reinforcement learning (RL) can learn appropriate visual representations for complex tasks like vision-based robotic grasping without the need for manuall…
Modeling Long-horizon Tasks as Sequential Interaction Landscapes
Sören Pirk, Karol Hausman, Alexander Toshev +1
Complex object manipulation tasks often span over long sequences of operations. Task planning over long-time horizons is a challenging and open problem in robotics, and its complex…
Action Image Representation: Learning Scalable Deep Grasping Policies with Zero Real World Data
Mohi Khansari, Daniel Kappler, Jianlan Luo +2
This paper introduces Action Image, a new grasp proposal representation that allows learning an end-to-end deep-grasping policy. Our model achieves grasp success on re…
Scalable Multi-Task Imitation Learning with Autonomous Improvement
Avi Singh, Eric Jang, Alexander Irpan +5
While robot learning has demonstrated promising results for enabling robots to automatically acquire new skills, a critical challenge in deploying learning-based systems is scale:…
Data-Efficient Learning for Sim-to-Real Robotic Grasping using Deep Point Cloud Prediction Networks
Xinchen Yan, Mohi Khansari, Jasmine Hsu +4
Training a deep network policy for robot manipulation is notoriously costly and time consuming as it depends on collecting a significant amount of real world data. To work well in…
Online Object Representations with Contrastive Learning
Sören Pirk, Mohi Khansari, Yunfei Bai +2
We propose a self-supervised approach for learning representations of objects from monocular videos and demonstrate it is particularly useful in situated settings such as robotics.…
Watch, Try, Learn: Meta-Learning from Demonstrations and Reward
Allan Zhou, Eric Jang, Daniel Kappler +7
Imitation learning allows agents to learn complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, learning a complex vision-based task may require an impractical number of demonstrations.…
Learning Latent Plans from Play
Corey Lynch, Mohi Khansari, Ted Xiao +4
Acquiring a diverse repertoire of general-purpose skills remains an open challenge for robotics. In this work, we propose self-supervising control on top of human teleoperated play…
Learning Contracting Vector Fields For Stable Imitation Learning
Vikas Sindhwani, Stephen Tu, Mohi Khansari
We propose a new non-parametric framework for learning incrementally stable dynamical systems x' = f(x) from a set of sampled trajectories. We construct a rich family of smooth vec…
Learning 6-DOF Grasping Interaction via Deep Geometry-aware 3D Representations
Xinchen Yan, Jasmine Hsu, Mohi Khansari +5
This paper focuses on the problem of learning 6-DOF grasping with a parallel jaw gripper in simulation. We propose the notion of a geometry-aware representation in grasping based o…