PhD Thesis Defense
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Learning and Translating Temporal Abstractions of Behaviour across Humans and Robots

NSH 4305

Abstract: Humans are remarkably adept at learning to perform tasks by imitating other people demonstrating these tasks. Key to this is our ability to reason abstractly about the high-level strategy of the task at hand (such as the recipe of cooking a dish) and the behaviours needed to solve this task (such as the behaviour [...]