Toolflownet: Robotic manipulation with tools via predicting tool flow from point clouds

D Seita, Y Wang, SJ Shetty, EY Li… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Point clouds are a widely available and canonical data modality which convey the 3D
geometry of a scene. Despite significant progress in classification and segmentation from …

Fusion dynamical systems with machine learning in imitation learning: A comprehensive overview

Y Hu, FJ Abu-Dakka, F Chen, X Luo, Z Li, A Knoll… - Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
Imitation Learning (IL), also referred to as Learning from Demonstration (LfD), holds
significant promise for capturing expert motor skills through efficient imitation, facilitating …

Learning safe and stable motion plans with neural ordinary differential equations

F Nawaz, T Li, N Matni, N Figueroa - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00186, 2023 - arxiv.org
A learning-based modular motion planning pipeline is presented that is compliant, safe, and
reactive to perturbations at task execution. A nominal motion plan, defined as a nonlinear …

[HTML][HTML] Learning stable robotic skills on Riemannian manifolds

M Saveriano, FJ Abu-Dakka, V Kyrki - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose an approach to learn stable dynamical systems that evolve on
Riemannian manifolds. Our approach leverages a data-efficient procedure to learn a …

Learning deep robotic skills on Riemannian manifolds

W Wang, M Saveriano, FJ Abu-Dakka - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose RiemannianFlow, a deep generative model that allows robots to
learn complex and stable skills evolving on Riemannian manifolds. Examples of …

Deep metric imitation learning for stable motion primitives

R Pérez-Dattari, C Della Santina, J Kober - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful technique for intuitive robotic programming. However,
ensuring the reliability of learned behaviors remains a challenge. In the context of reaching …

Unraveling the single tangent space fallacy: An analysis and clarification for applying Riemannian geometry in robot learning

N Jaquier, L Rozo, T Asfour - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07902, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the realm of robotics, numerous downstream robotics tasks leverage machine learning
methods for processing, modeling, or synthesizing data. Often, this data comprises variables …

Task generalization with stability guarantees via elastic dynamical system motion policies

T Li, N Figueroa - 7th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2023 - openreview.net
Dynamical System (DS) based Learning from Demonstration (LfD) allows learning of
reactive motion policies with stability and convergence guarantees from a few trajectories …

Riemannian Flow Matching Policy for Robot Motion Learning

M Braun, N Jaquier, L Rozo, T Asfour - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10672, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce Riemannian Flow Matching Policies (RFMP), a novel model for learning and
synthesizing robot visuomotor policies. RFMP leverages the efficient training and inference …

Kuramoto Oscillators and Swarms on Manifolds for Geometry Informed Machine Learning

V Jacimovic - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09453, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose the idea of using Kuramoto models (including their higher-dimensional
generalizations) for machine learning over non-Euclidean data sets. These models are …