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# Statement of Need

Movement primitives are a common group of policy representations in robotics.
Although movement primitives are limited in their capacity to represent
behavior that takes into account complex sensor data during execution in
comparison to general function approximators such as neural networks, several
instances (e.g., dynamical movement primitives) have proven to be a reliable
and effective tool in robot learning.
They are able to represent complex movement patterns, allow temporal and
spatial modification, offer stability guarantees, and are suitable for
imitation learning without complicated hyperparameter tuning, which are
advantages over general function approximators like neural networks. Their main
disadvantage is that they are limited in their capacity to represent behavior
that takes into account complex sensor data during execution. Nevertheless,
they have proven to be a reliable and effective tool in robot learning.
A reliable tool deserves a similarly reliable implementation. However, there
are only a few actively maintained, documented, and easy to use
implementations. One of these is *movement_primitives*, which we present in
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