Informatics Report Series


Report   

EDI-INF-RR-1299


Related Pages

Report (by Number) Index
Report (by Date) Index
Author Index
Institute Index

Home
Title:Synthesising Novel Movements through Latent Space Modulation of Scalable Control Policies
Authors: Sebastian Bitzer ; Ioannis Havoutis ; Sethu Vijayakumar
Date: 2008
Publication Title:From Animals to Animats 10
Publisher:Springer
Publication Type:Conference Paper Publication Status:Published
Page Nos:199--209
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_20
Abstract:
We propose a novel methodology for learning and synthesising whole classes of high dimensional movements from a limited set of demonstrated examples that satisfy some underlying 'latent' low dimensional task constraints. We employ non-linear dimensionality reduction to extract a canonical latent space that captures some of the essential topology of the unobserved task space. In this latent space, we identify suitable parametrisation of movements with control policies such that they are easily modulated to generate novel movements from the same class and are robust to perturbations. We evaluate our method on controlled simulation experiments with simple robots (reaching and periodic movement tasks) as well as on a data set of very high-dimensional human (punching) movements. We verify that we can generate a continuum of new movements from the demonstrated class from only a few examples in both robotic and human data.
Links To Paper
1st Link
Bibtex format
@InProceedings{EDI-INF-RR-1299,
author = { Sebastian Bitzer and Ioannis Havoutis and Sethu Vijayakumar },
title = {Synthesising Novel Movements through Latent Space Modulation of Scalable Control Policies},
book title = {From Animals to Animats 10},
publisher = {Springer},
year = 2008,
pages = {199--209},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_20},
url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/r4kq04513317w230/},
}


Home : Publications : Report 

Please mail <reports@inf.ed.ac.uk> with any changes or corrections.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright The University of Edinburgh