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Generalizing human-demonstrated robot skills

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Project "ROBOTGENSKILL" data sheet

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Coordinator
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN 

Organization address
address: OUDE MARKT 13
city: LEUVEN
postcode: 3000
website: www.kuleuven.be

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 Coordinator Country Belgium [BE]
 Total cost 2˙494˙971 €
 EC max contribution 2˙494˙971 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2017-ADG
 Funding Scheme ERC-ADG
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-10-01   to  2023-09-30

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1    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN BE (LEUVEN) coordinator 2˙494˙971.00

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 Project objective

Future robots are expected to perform a multitude of complex tasks with high variability, in close collaboration or even physical contact with humans, and in industrial as well as in non-industrial settings. Both human-robot interaction and task variability are major challenges. A lot of progress is needed so that: (1) robots recognize the intention of the human and react with human-like motions; (2) robot end-users, such as operators on the factory floor or people at home, are able to deploy robots for new tasks or new situations in an intuitive way, for example by just demonstrating the task to the robot.

The fundamental challenge addressed in this proposal is: how can a robot generalize a skill that has been demonstrated in a particular situation and apply it to new situations? This project focuses on skills involving rigid objects manipulated by a robot or a human and follows a model-based approach consisting of: (1) conversion of the demonstrated data to an innovative invariant representation of motion and interaction forces; (2) generalization of this representation to a new situation by solving an optimal control problem in which similarity with the invariant representation is maintained while complying with the constraints imposed by the new context. Additional knowledge about the task can be added in the constraints. Major breakthroughs are that the required number of demonstrations and hence the training effort decrease drastically, similarity with the demonstration is maintained in view of preserving the human-like nature, and task knowledge is easily included.

The methodology is applied to program robot skills involving motion in free space (e.g. human-robot hand over tasks) as well as advanced manipulation skills involving contact (e.g. assembly, cleaning), aiming at impact in industrial and non-industrial settings.

Application of the invariant motion representation in the neighbouring field of biomechanics will further leverage impact.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2019 Maxim Vochten, Tinne De Laet, Joris De Schutter
Generalizing demonstrated motion trajectories using coordinate-free shape descriptors
published pages: 103291, ISSN: 0921-8890, DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2019.103291
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 122 2019-10-16
2019 Maxim Vochten, Tinne De Laet, Joris De Schutter
Improving Generalization in Trajectory Learning through Coordinate-free Shape Descriptors
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2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, LINCH Workshop May 24, 2019 2019-10-16

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