# iART: Learning from Demonstration for Assisted Robotic Therapy Using LSTM

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01403 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.01403/

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- First posted on arXiv 2 Mar 2023.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present an intelligent Assistant for Robotic Therapy (iART), that provides robotic assistance during 3D trajectory tracking tasks. We propose a novel LSTM-based robot learning from demonstration (LfD) paradigm to mimic a therapist's assistance behavior. iART presents a trajectory agnostic LfD routine that can generalize learned behavior from a single trajectory to any 3D shape. Once the therapist's behavior has been learned, iART enables the patient to modify this behavior as per their preference. The system requires only a single demonstration of 2 minutes and exhibits a mean accuracy of 91.41% in predicting, and hence mimicking a therapist's assistance behavior. The system delivers stable assistance in realtime and successfully reproduces different types of assistance behaviors.
