3 papers
cs.RO2022
Understanding Acoustic Patterns of Human Teachers Demonstrating Manipulation Tasks to Robots
Akanksha Saran, Kush Desai, Mai Lee Chang +3
Humans use audio signals in the form of spoken language or verbal reactions effectively when teaching new skills or tasks to other humans. While demonstrations allow humans to teac…
cs.RO2021
Distributional Depth-Based Estimation of Object Articulation Models
Ajinkya Jain, Stephen Giguere, Rudolf Lioutikov +1
We propose a method that efficiently learns distributions over articulation model parameters directly from depth images without the need to know articulation model categories a pri…
cs.LG2021
Self-Supervised Online Reward Shaping in Sparse-Reward Environments
Farzan Memarian, Wonjoon Goo, Rudolf Lioutikov +2
We introduce Self-supervised Online Reward Shaping (SORS), which aims to improve the sample efficiency of any RL algorithm in sparse-reward environments by automatically densifying…