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Billard_SPRINGER_2016/IDIAP
Learning From Humans
Billard, A. G.
Calinon, Sylvain
Dillmann, R.
Siciliano, B.
Ed.
Khatib, O.
Ed.
Handbook of Robotics
2016
Springer
Secaucus, NJ, USA
1995-2014
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-32552-1_74
URL
10.1007/978-3-319-32552-1_74
doi
This chapter surveys the main approaches developed to date to endow robots with the ability to learn from human guidance. The field is best known as robot programming by demonstration, robot learning from/by demonstration, apprenticeship learning and imitation learning. We start with a brief historical overview of the field. We then summarize the various approaches taken to solve four main questions: when, what, who and when to imitate. We emphasize the importance of choosing well the interface and the channels used to convey the demonstrations, with an eye on interfaces providing force control and force feedback. We then review algorithmic approaches to model skills individually and as a compound and algorithms that combine learning from human guidance with reinforcement learning. We close with a look on the use of language to guide teaching and a list of open issues.