Confidence-Based Skill Reproduction Through Perturbation Analysis

05/04/2023
by   Brendan Hertel, et al.
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Several methods exist for teaching robots, with one of the most prominent being Learning from Demonstration (LfD). Many LfD representations can be formulated as constrained optimization problems. We propose a novel convex formulation of the LfD problem represented as elastic maps, which models reproductions as a series of connected springs. Relying on the properties of strong duality and perturbation analysis of the constrained optimization problem, we create a confidence metric. Our method allows the demonstrated skill to be reproduced with varying confidence level yielding different levels of smoothness and flexibility. Our confidence-based method provides reproductions of the skill that perform better for a given set of constraints. By analyzing the constraints, our method can also remove unnecessary constraints. We validate our approach using several simulated and real-world experiments using a Jaco2 7DOF manipulator arm.

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