Teaching Robots by Example

Young children mimic everything they see and hear around them—sometimes to comic effect. While learning from observed behaviors comes naturally to children, it’s a different story for robots. For a robot to learn to perform a task, one effective way is to define the geometric null space—the set of poses needed for the skill—and its constraints. Together, these form a mathematical representation of the skill that can be performed by any robot in any environment.

Read how A*STAR's researchers come together and develop a versatile framework that enables robots to learn from human demonstrators via six basic skills: Grasp, Place, Move, Pull, Mix and Pour.

The A*STAR-affiliated researchers contributing to this research are from the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC). 

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