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Everyone\u0027s home has a different layout, everyone has differing needs, and people\u0027s preferences and needs will change over time as they age. One solution to this challenge is Learning from Demonstration (LfD), a paradigm that enables novice end-users to teach robots new skills based on human demonstrations of a task. However, LfD is not foolproof.\u0026nbsp; The real-world presents challenges from suboptimal teachers, communication errors, and unstructured environments. I aim to develop improvements to LfD to account for robot failure, teacher suboptimality, and target end-users. First, I conduct a human-subjects experiment evaluating a person\u0027s perceptions of robot failure when the person is the one teaching the robot via LfD. Since robot failure can occur due to demonstrator suboptimality, I then develop a novel architecture to learn from suboptimal demonstrators\u0027 feedback.\u0026nbsp; I propose a framework for robot failure recovery, where the robot learns the person\u0027s preferences through human interventions. Lastly, I propose to evaluate LfD with a target population of older adults.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E Improving Learning from Demonstration in Real-World Scenarios\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Improving Learning from Demonstration in Real-World Scenarios"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2023-05-11 20:22:33","changed_gmt":"2023-05-11 20:22:33","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-05-22T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-05-22T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-05-22T15:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-05-22 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-05-22 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-05-22 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Kendada Building, Room 210","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}