Learning Feedback Terms for Reactive Planning and Control
Akshara Rai, Giovanni Sutanto, Stefan Schaal, and Franziska Meier

TL;DR
This paper presents a method to enhance robot motion plans with reactive feedback using neural networks and dynamic movement primitives, enabling robots to adapt to changing environments like obstacle avoidance.
Contribution
It introduces a neural network-based reactive modification term for nonlinear movement plans, combining machine learning with physical insights for robust robot behavior.
Findings
Effective reactive policies learned from human demonstrations
Robust obstacle avoidance across different settings
Successful implementation on an anthropomorphic robot
Abstract
With the advancement of robotics, machine learning, and machine perception, increasingly more robots will enter human environments to assist with daily tasks. However, dynamically-changing human environments requires reactive motion plans. Reactivity can be accomplished through replanning, e.g. model-predictive control, or through a reactive feedback policy that modifies on-going behavior in response to sensory events. In this paper, we investigate how to use machine learning to add reactivity to a previously learned nominal skilled behavior. We approach this by learning a reactive modification term for movement plans represented by nonlinear differential equations. In particular, we use dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) to represent a skill and a neural network to learn a reactive policy from human demonstrations. We use the well explored domain of obstacle avoidance for robot…
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