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Nicolas Berberich

2 accepted papers

2022

Learning Causal Relationships of Object Properties and Affordances Through Human Demonstrations and Self-Supervised Intervention for Purposeful Action in Transfer Environments

RA-L 2022

Learning object affordances enables robots to plan and perform purposeful actions. However, a fundamental challenge for the utilization of affordance knowledge lies in its generalization to unknown objects and environments. In this letter we present a new method for learning causal relationships bet

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2020

The Robot as Scientist: Using Mental Simulation to Test Causal Hypotheses Extracted from Human Activities in Virtual Reality

IROS 2020poster

To act effectively in its environment, a cognitive robot needs to understand the causal dependencies of all intermediate actions leading up to its goal. For example, the system has to infer that it is instrumental to open a cupboard door before trying to grasp an object inside the cupboard. In this…

Cited by 24SourceScholar