Cross-domain Transfer Learning and State Inference for Soft Robots via a Semi-supervised Sequential Variational Bayes Framework

Shageenderan Sapai,Junn Yong Loo,Ze Yang Ding,Chee Pin Tan,Raphaël C.-W. Phan,Vishnu Monn Baskaran,Surya Girinatha Nurzaman,Shageenderan Sapai,Junn Yong Loo,Ze Yang Ding,Chee Pin Tan,Raphaël C.-W. Phan,Vishnu Monn Baskaran,Surya Girinatha Nurzaman

Recently, data-driven models such as deep neural networks have shown to be promising tools for modelling and state inference in soft robots. However, voluminous amounts of data are necessary for deep models to perform effectively, which requires exhaustive and quality data collection, particularly of state labels. Consequently, obtaining labelled state data for soft robotic systems is challenged f...