Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same – learning from a video of a human, even when there is domain shift in the perspective, environment, and embodiment between the robot and the observed human. Prior approaches to this problem have hand-specified how human and robot actions correspond and often relied on explicit human pose detection systems. In this work, we present an approach for one-shot learning from a video of a human by using human and robot demonstration data from a variety of previous tasks to build up prior knowledge through meta-learning. Then, combining this prior knowledge and only a single video demonstration from a human, the robot can perform the task that the human demonstrated. We show experiments on both a PR2 arm and a Sawyer arm, demonstrating that after meta-learning, the robot can learn to place, push, and pick-and-place new objects using just one video of a human performing the manipulation.
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Yu, T., Finn, C., Xie, A., Dasari, S., Zhang, T., Abbeel, P., & Levine, S. (2018). One-Shot Imitation from Observing Humans via Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning. In Robotics: Science and Systems. MIT Press Journals. https://doi.org/10.15607/RSS.2018.XIV.002
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