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“iCub, clean the table!” A robot learning from demonstration approach using Deep Neural Networks

dc.contributor.authorKim, Jaeseok
dc.contributor.authorCauli, Nino
dc.contributor.authorVicente, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorDamas, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorCavallo, Filippo
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Victor José
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-25T12:53:49Z
dc.date.available2018-10-25T12:53:49Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-25
dc.description.abstractAutonomous service robots have become a key research topic in robotics, particularly for household chores. A typical home scenario is highly unconstrained and a service robot needs to adapt constantly to new situations. In this paper, we address the problem of autonomous cleaning tasks in uncontrolled environments. In our approach, a human instructor uses kinestethic demonstrations to teach a robot how to perform different cleaning tasks on a table. Then, we use Task Parametrized Gaussian Mixture Models (TP-GMMs) to encode the demonstrations variability, while providing appropriate generalization abilities. TP-GMMs extend Gaussian Mixture Models with an auxiliary set of reference frames, in order to extrapolate the demonstrations to different task parameters such as movement locations, amplitude or orientations. However, the reference frames (that parametrize TP-GMMs) can be very difficult to extract in practice, as it may require segmenting the cluttered images of the working table-top. Instead, in this work the reference frames are automatically extracted from robot camera images, using a deep neural network that was trained during human demonstrations of a cleaning task. This approach has two main benefits: (i) it takes the human completely out of the loop while performing complex cleaning tasks; and (ii) the network is able to identify the specific task to be performed directly from image data, thus also enabling automatic task selection from a set of previously demonstrated tasks. The system was implemented on the iCub humanoid robot. During the tests, the robot was able to successfully clean a table with two different types of dirt (wiping a marker’s scribble or sweeping clusters of lentils).pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/ICARSC.2018.8374152
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/24524
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.title“iCub, clean the table!” A robot learning from demonstration approach using Deep Neural Networkspt_PT
dc.typeconference object
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.startPage7 p.pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typeconferenceObjectpt_PT

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