Improving Generalisation in Learning Assistance by Demonstration for Smart Wheelchairs

Vinicius Schettino,Yiannis Demiris,Vinicius Schettino,Yiannis Demiris

Learning Assistance by Demonstration (LAD) is concerned with using demonstrations of a human agent to teach a robot how to assist another human. The concept has previously been used with smart wheelchairs to provide customised assistance to individuals with driving difficulties. A basic premise of this technique is that the learned assistive policy should be able to generalise to environments diff...