Student Talks
A Data-Driven Approach to High Level Planning
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Motion planning for complex systems such as legged robots and mobile manipulators has proven to be a difficult task for a variety of reasons: not only must planning software consider a high-dimensional configuration space, but it must reason dynamically about how to apply forces to the real world. Accomplishing such planning [...]
Learning to Search: Structured Prediction Techniques for Imitation Learning
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Abstract: Modern robots successfully manipulate objects, navigate rugged terrain, drive in urban settings, and play world-class chess. Unfortunately, programming these robots is challenging, time-consuming and expensive; the parameters governing their behavior are often unintuitive, even when the desired behavior is clear and easily demonstrated. Inspired by successful end-to-end learning systems [...]