One-Shot Robust Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Visuomotor Tasks from Unsegmented Demonstrations

Abstract: In contrast to single-skill tasks, long-horizon tasks play a crucial role in our daily life, e.g., a pouring task requires a proper concatenation of reaching, grasping and pouring subtasks. As an efficient solution for transferring human skills to robots, imitation learning has achieved great progress over the last two decades. However, when learning long-horizon visuomotor skills, imitation learning often demands a large amount of semantically segmented demonstrations. Moreover, the performance of imitation learning could be susceptible to external perturbation and visual occlusion. In this paper, we exploit dynamical movement primitives and meta-learning to provide a new framework for imitation learning, called Meta-Imitation Learning with Adaptive Dynamical Primitives (MiLa). MiLa allows for learning unsegmented long-horizon demonstrations and adapting to unseen tasks with a single demonstration. MiLa can also resist external disturbances and visual occlusion during task execution. Real-world robotic experiments demonstrate the superiority of MiLa, irrespective of visual occlusion and random perturbations on robots.