Computational Teaching for Driving via Multi-Task Imitation Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Gopinath, Deepak, Cui, Xiongyi, DeCastro, Jonathan, Sumner, Emily, Costa, Jean, Yasuda, Hiroshi, Morgan, Allison, Dees, Laporsha, Chau, Sheryl, Leonard, John, Chen, Tiffany, Rosman, Guy, Balachandran, Avinash
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author Gopinath, Deepak
Cui, Xiongyi
DeCastro, Jonathan
Sumner, Emily
Costa, Jean
Yasuda, Hiroshi
Morgan, Allison
Dees, Laporsha
Chau, Sheryl
Leonard, John
Chen, Tiffany
Rosman, Guy
Balachandran, Avinash
author_facet Gopinath, Deepak
Cui, Xiongyi
DeCastro, Jonathan
Sumner, Emily
Costa, Jean
Yasuda, Hiroshi
Morgan, Allison
Dees, Laporsha
Chau, Sheryl
Leonard, John
Chen, Tiffany
Rosman, Guy
Balachandran, Avinash
contents Learning motor skills for sports or performance driving is often done with professional instruction from expert human teachers, whose availability is limited. Our goal is to enable automated teaching via a learned model that interacts with the student similar to a human teacher. However, training such automated teaching systems is limited by the availability of high-quality annotated datasets of expert teacher and student interactions that are difficult to collect at scale. To address this data scarcity problem, we propose an approach for training a coaching system for complex motor tasks such as high performance driving via a Multi-Task Imitation Learning (MTIL) paradigm. MTIL allows our model to learn robust representations by utilizing self-supervised training signals from more readily available non-interactive datasets of humans performing the task of interest. We validate our approach with (1) a semi-synthetic dataset created from real human driving trajectories, (2) a professional track driving instruction dataset, (3) a track-racing driving simulator human-subject study, and (4) a system demonstration on an instrumented car at a race track. Our experiments show that the right set of auxiliary machine learning tasks improves performance in predicting teaching instructions. Moreover, in the human subjects study, students exposed to the instructions from our teaching system improve their ability to stay within track limits, and show favorable perception of the model's interaction with them, in terms of usefulness and satisfaction.
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spellingShingle Computational Teaching for Driving via Multi-Task Imitation Learning
Gopinath, Deepak
Cui, Xiongyi
DeCastro, Jonathan
Sumner, Emily
Costa, Jean
Yasuda, Hiroshi
Morgan, Allison
Dees, Laporsha
Chau, Sheryl
Leonard, John
Chen, Tiffany
Rosman, Guy
Balachandran, Avinash
Robotics
Learning motor skills for sports or performance driving is often done with professional instruction from expert human teachers, whose availability is limited. Our goal is to enable automated teaching via a learned model that interacts with the student similar to a human teacher. However, training such automated teaching systems is limited by the availability of high-quality annotated datasets of expert teacher and student interactions that are difficult to collect at scale. To address this data scarcity problem, we propose an approach for training a coaching system for complex motor tasks such as high performance driving via a Multi-Task Imitation Learning (MTIL) paradigm. MTIL allows our model to learn robust representations by utilizing self-supervised training signals from more readily available non-interactive datasets of humans performing the task of interest. We validate our approach with (1) a semi-synthetic dataset created from real human driving trajectories, (2) a professional track driving instruction dataset, (3) a track-racing driving simulator human-subject study, and (4) a system demonstration on an instrumented car at a race track. Our experiments show that the right set of auxiliary machine learning tasks improves performance in predicting teaching instructions. Moreover, in the human subjects study, students exposed to the instructions from our teaching system improve their ability to stay within track limits, and show favorable perception of the model's interaction with them, in terms of usefulness and satisfaction.
title Computational Teaching for Driving via Multi-Task Imitation Learning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01608