Brown ROS Package: Reproducibility for Shared Experimentation and Learning from Demonstration

We describe our efforts toward developing infrastructure for shared remote robotics laboratories that allow reproducible robotics experimentation and large scale learning from demonstration (LfD). Our goal is to create a facility where users demonstrate desired tasks by teleoperating robot platforms through video-game style web-based interfaces, providing data that LfD approaches will turn into robot policies. We describe a selection of open source tools, provided by the Brown robotics lab, created in service of building such a remote lab.