Generalized Cylinders for Learning, Reproduction, Generalization, and Refinement of Robot Skills

Post date: Jun 05, 2017 5:26:49 PM

S. Reza Ahmadzadeh, Muhammad Asif Rana, Sonia Chernova

Reference:

S. Reza Ahmadzadeh, Muhammad Asif Rana, Sonia Chernova, "Generalized Cyliners for Learning,

Reproduction, Generalization, and Refinement of Robot Skills", In Proc. Robotics: Science and

Systems (RSS 2017), Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,

12th-16th Jul. 2017.

Bibtex Entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{ahmadzadeh2017generalized, TITLE={Generalized Cylinders for Learning, Reproduction,Generalization, and Refinement of Robot Skills}, AUTHOR={Ahmadzadeh, S. Reza and Rana Muhammad Asif and Chernova, Sonia}, BOOKTITLE={Robotics: Science and Systems ({RSS})}, YEAR={2017}, MONTH={July}, PAGES={1--10}, ADDRESS={Boston, MA, USA} }

Abstract:

This paper presents a novel geometric approach for learning and reproducing trajectory-based skills

from human demonstrations. Our approach models a skill as a Generalized Cylinder, a geometric

representation composed of an arbitrary space curve called spine and a smoothly varying

cross-section. While this model has been utilized to solve other robotics problems, this is the

first application of Generalized Cylinders to manipulation. The strengths of our approach are the

model’s ability to identify and extract the implicit characteristics of the demonstrated skill,

support for reproduction of multiple trajectories that maintain those characteristics,

generalization to new situations through nonrigid registration, and interactive human refinement of

the resulting model through kinesthetic teaching. We validate our approach through several

real-world experiments with a Jaco 6-DOF robotic arm.