3 papers
cs.LG2019
Mo' States Mo' Problems: Emergency Stop Mechanisms from Observation
Samuel Ainsworth, Matt Barnes, Siddhartha Srinivasa
In many environments, only a relatively small subset of the complete state space is necessary in order to accomplish a given task. We develop a simple technique using emergency sto…
cs.RO2019
Adaptive Robot-Assisted Feeding: An Online Learning Framework for Acquiring Previously Unseen Food Items
Ethan K. Gordon, Xiang Meng, Matt Barnes +2
A successful robot-assisted feeding system requires bite acquisition of a wide variety of food items. It must adapt to changing user food preferences under uncertain visual and phy…
cs.LG2019
Imitation Learning as -Divergence Minimization
Liyiming Ke, Sanjiban Choudhury, Matt Barnes +3
We address the problem of imitation learning with multi-modal demonstrations. Instead of attempting to learn all modes, we argue that in many tasks it is sufficient to imitate any…