Résumé
Robot Programming by Demonstration (RbD) explores user-friendly means of teaching new skills to robots. Recent advances in RbD have identified a number of key issues for ensuring a generic approach to the transfer of skills across various agents and contexts. This book focuses on the two generic questions of what to imitate and how to imitate, which are concerned, respectively, with the problem of the extraction of the essential features of a task and the determining of a way to reproduce these essential features in different situations. The book proposes active teaching methods that places the teacher ”in the loop” of the robots’ learning.