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Title:Methods for Learning Control Policies from Variable-constraint Demonstrations
Authors: Matthew Howard ; Stefan Klanke ; Gienger Michael ; Goerick Christian ; Sethu Vijayakumar
Date:Jan 2010
Publication Title:From Motor to Interaction Learning in Robots
Publisher:Springer
Publication Type:Book Chapter Publication Status:Pre-print
ISBN/ISSN:978-3-642-05180-7
Abstract:
Many everyday human skills can be framed in terms of performing some task subject to constraints imposed by the task or the environment. Constraints are usually not observable and frequently change between contexts. In this chapter, we explore the problem of learning control policies from data containing variable, dynamic and non-linear constraints on motion. We discuss how an effective approach for doing this is to learn the unconstrained policy in a way that is consistent with the constraints. We then go on to discuss several recent algorithms for extracting policies from movement data, where observations are recorded under variable, unknown constraints. We review a number of experiments testing the performance of these algorithms and demonstrating how the resultant policy models generalise over constraints allowing prediction of behaviour under unseen settings where new constraints apply.
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2009 by The University of Edinburgh. All Rights Reserved
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@InBook{EDI-INF-RR-1349,
author = { Matthew Howard and Stefan Klanke and Gienger Michael and Goerick Christian and Sethu Vijayakumar },
title = {Methods for Learning Control Policies from Variable-constraint Demonstrations},
book title = {From Motor to Interaction Learning in Robots},
publisher = {Springer},
year = 2010,
month = {Jan},
}


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