Publications by Hakan Girgin | EPFL Graph Search

Learning and optimization of anticipatory feedback controllers for robot manipulation

Programming intelligent robots requires robust controllers that can achieve desired tasks while adapting to the changes in the task and the environment. In this thesis, we address the challenges in designing such adaptive and anticipatory feedback controll ...

EPFL2023

Probabilistic Adaptive Control for Robust Behavior Imitation

Sylvain Calinon, Hakan Girgin, Julius Maximilian Jankowski

In the context of learning from demonstration (LfD), trajectory policy representations such as probabilistic movement primitives (ProMPs) allow for rich modeling of demonstrated skills. To reproduce a learned skill with a real robot, a feedback controller ...

IEEE2021

Optimization of robot configurations for motion planning in industrial riveting

Sylvain Calinon, Hakan Girgin, Teguh Santoso Lembono

Collaborative robots (cobots) have been increasingly used in the industry in recent years. The cobots are often 7-axis kinematically redundant manipulators. Exploiting these redundancies in industrial tasks is still a challenge as the change in the robot j ...

IEEE2021

Active Learning of Bayesian Probabilistic Movement Primitives

Sylvain Calinon, Jean-Marc Odobez, Hakan Girgin, Thibaut Antoine Kulak

Learning from Demonstration permits non-expert users to easily and intuitively reprogram robots. Among approaches embracing this paradigm, probabilistic movement primitives (ProMPs) are a well-established and widely used method to learn trajectory distribu ...

IEEE2021

Active Improvement of Control Policies with Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model

Sylvain Calinon, Noémie Laure Gwendoline Jaquier, Emmanuel Pignat, Hakan Girgin

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an intuitive framework allowing non-expert users to easily (re-)program robots. However, the quality and quantity of demonstrations have a great influence on the generalization performances of LfD approaches. In this pa ...

IEEE2020

Generative adversarial training of product of policies for robust and adaptive movement primitives

Sylvain Calinon, Emmanuel Pignat, Hakan Girgin

In learning from demonstrations, many generative models of trajectories make simplifying assumptions of independence. Correctness is sacrificed in the name of tractability and speed of the learning phase. The ignored dependencies, which are often the kinem ...

2020