RT Journal Article T1 Teaching robot navigation behaviors to optimal RRT planners A1 Pérez Higueras, Noé A1 Caballero, Fernando A1 Merino, Luis A1 Merino, Luis K1 Path Planning K1 Learning from Demonstration K1 Social Robots AB This work presents an approach for learning navigation behaviors for robots using Optimal Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT*) as the main planner. A new learning algorithm combining both Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) and RRT* is developed to learn the RRT* ’s cost function from demonstrations. A comparison with other state-of-the-art algorithms shows how the method can recover the behavior from the demonstrations. Finally, a learned cost function for social navigation is tested in real experiments with a robot in the laboratory. PB Springer YR 2017 FD 2017-11-27 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25604 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25604 LA en NO International Journal of Social Robotics 10, 235–249 (2018). NO Deporte e Informática NO Service Robotics Lab DS RIO RD Apr 28, 2026