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A Bayesian Developmental Approach to Robotic Goal-Based Imitation Learning
Authors:Michael Jae-Yoon Chung  Abram L. Friesen  Dieter Fox  Andrew N. Meltzoff  Rajesh P. N. Rao
Affiliation:1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America.; 2. Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America.; Centre for Coevolution of Biology & Culture, University of Durham, UNITED KINGDOM,
Abstract:A fundamental challenge in robotics today is building robots that can learn new skills by observing humans and imitating human actions. We propose a new Bayesian approach to robotic learning by imitation inspired by the developmental hypothesis that children use self-experience to bootstrap the process of intention recognition and goal-based imitation. Our approach allows an autonomous agent to: (i) learn probabilistic models of actions through self-discovery and experience, (ii) utilize these learned models for inferring the goals of human actions, and (iii) perform goal-based imitation for robotic learning and human-robot collaboration. Such an approach allows a robot to leverage its increasing repertoire of learned behaviors to interpret increasingly complex human actions and use the inferred goals for imitation, even when the robot has very different actuators from humans. We demonstrate our approach using two different scenarios: (i) a simulated robot that learns human-like gaze following behavior, and (ii) a robot that learns to imitate human actions in a tabletop organization task. In both cases, the agent learns a probabilistic model of its own actions, and uses this model for goal inference and goal-based imitation. We also show that the robotic agent can use its probabilistic model to seek human assistance when it recognizes that its inferred actions are too uncertain, risky, or impossible to perform, thereby opening the door to human-robot collaboration.
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