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Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU-Based Physics Simulation For Robot Learning

Robotics 2021-08-27 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Isaac Gym offers a high performance learning platform to train policies for wide variety of robotics tasks directly on GPU. Both physics simulation and the neural network policy training reside on GPU and communicate by directly passing data from physics buffers to PyTorch tensors without ever going through any CPU bottlenecks. This leads to blazing fast training times for complex robotics tasks on a single GPU with 2-3 orders of magnitude improvements compared to conventional RL training that uses a CPU based simulator and GPU for neural networks. We host the results and videos at \url{https://sites.google.com/view/isaacgym-nvidia} and isaac gym can be downloaded at \url{https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac-gym}.

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@article{arxiv.2108.10470,
  title  = {Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU-Based Physics Simulation For Robot Learning},
  author = {Viktor Makoviychuk and Lukasz Wawrzyniak and Yunrong Guo and Michelle Lu and Kier Storey and Miles Macklin and David Hoeller and Nikita Rudin and Arthur Allshire and Ankur Handa and Gavriel State},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10470},
  year   = {2021}
}

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