HOW TO TRAIN YOUR ROBOT? INFERRING INTENT DURING HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP ROBOT LEARNING FOR OUTPUT-TRACKING

Various studies over the years, focused an understanding the mechanisms of learning in humans, have agreed on the notion that primarily, new skills are learned by watching successful demonstrations by a teacher, followed by imitation and practice until the skill is mastered. This is very commonly seen in infants and toddlers. Moreover, even in the animal world, such as in Capuchin monkeys, observations of a more proficient individual may benefit novices when subsequently acting on their own. Formally, such a learning scheme is referred to as Learning from Demonstration of Teaching by Demonstration, and is sometimes colloquially referred to by the endearing term, monkey see; monkey do. Often the teacher might also physically hold the student's hand and demonstrate how to perform a task. For example, a tennis instructor might hold a student's hand and go through a tennis stroke as opposed to the instructor just displaying the stroke.