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Mobile Manipulation for Rearrangement Tasks using Reinforcement and Imitation Learning

Rearrangement tasks, which involve moving objects from their initial positions to desired target positions, require the coordination of multiple robotic skills. Training a policy to perform such tasks in partially unknown environments is challenging and often requires significant engineering effort. One promising solution is to leverage human demonstrations to learn effective task-execution strategies.

The aim of this thesis is therefore to investigate how recent advances in imitation learning and multi-modal generative models can be used to make efficient use of demonstration data. The learned policies should enable a robot to perform rearrangement tasks and adapt its behavior to new task objectives.

Mobile Manipulation for Rearrangement Tasks using Reinforcement and Imitation Learning

Enrolled in computer science or simialr MSc program in and around Bonn/Cologne

Experience with Reinforcement Learning and Generative models

Familarity with robotic simulators such as Habitat AI and Isaac sim

Programming experience with Python, C++, and ROS

Enthusiasm for real-world robot deployment and scientific publishing of results