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Reliable localization is crucial for autonomous robots to navigate efficiently and safely. Some navigation methods can plan paths with high localizability (which describes the capability of acquiring reliable localization). By following…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yuan Chen , Quecheng Qiu , Xiangyu Liu , Guangda Chen , Shunyi Yao , Jie Peng , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

Mastering robotic manipulation skills through reinforcement learning (RL) typically requires the design of shaped reward functions. Recent developments in this area have demonstrated that using sparse rewards, i.e. rewarding the agent only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Ozsel Kilinc , Giovanni Montana

Traditional control methods effectively manage robot operations using models like motion equations but face challenges with issues of contact and friction, leading to unstable and imprecise controllers that often require manual tweaking.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Bahador Beigomi , Zheng H. Zhu

Deep learning and reinforcement learning methods have recently been used to solve a variety of problems in continuous control domains. An obvious application of these techniques is dexterous manipulation tasks in robotics which are…

This paper addresses the challenge of active perception within autonomous navigation in complex, unknown environments. Revisiting the foundational principles of active perception, we introduce an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Grzegorz Malczyk , Mihir Kulkarni , Kostas Alexis

Deep reinforcement learning is an emerging machine learning approach which can teach a computer to learn from their actions and rewards similar to the way humans learn from experience. It offers many advantages in automating decision…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 V. Nguyen , S. B. Orbell , D. T. Lennon , H. Moon , F. Vigneau , L. C. Camenzind , L. Yu , D. M. Zumbühl , G. A. D. Briggs , M. A. Osborne , D. Sejdinovic , N. Ares

Collision-free motion is essential for mobile robots. Most approaches to collision-free and efficient navigation with wheeled robots require parameter tuning by experts to obtain good navigation behavior. This study investigates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hamid Taheri , Seyed Rasoul Hosseini , Mohammad Ali Nekoui

Robot arms should be able to learn new tasks. One framework here is reinforcement learning, where the robot is given a reward function that encodes the task, and the robot autonomously learns actions to maximize its reward. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Shaunak A. Mehta , Soheil Habibian , Dylan P. Losey

Learning to manipulate objects efficiently, particularly those involving sustained contact (e.g., pushing, sliding) and articulated parts (e.g., drawers, doors), presents significant challenges. Traditional methods, such as robot-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shijie Fang , Wenchang Gao , Shivam Goel , Christopher Thierauf , Matthias Scheutz , Jivko Sinapov

Deep reinforcement learning has enabled robots to learn motor skills from environmental interactions with minimal to no prior knowledge. However, existing reinforcement learning algorithms assume an episodic setting, in which the agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jigang Kim , J. hyeon Park , Daesol Cho , H. Jin Kim

Deep reinforcement learning has shown its advantages in real-time decision-making based on the state of the agent. In this stage, we solved the task of using a real robot to manipulate the cube to a given trajectory. The task is broken down…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Qingfeng Yao , Jilong Wang , Shuyu Yang

Deep Reinforcement Learning has been successfully applied in various computer games [8]. However, it is still rarely used in real-world applications, especially for the navigation and continuous control of real mobile robots [13]. Previous…

Robot control problems are often structured with a policy function that maps state values into control values, but in many dynamic problems the observed state can have a difficult to characterize relationship with useful policy actions. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Max Pflueger , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been widely used to solve tasks where the environment consistently provides a dense reward value. However, in real-world scenarios, rewards can often be poorly defined or sparse. Auxiliary signals are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 David Valencia , Henry Williams , Yuning Xing , Trevor Gee , Minas Liarokapis , Bruce A. MacDonald

For the task with complicated manipulation in unstructured environments, traditional hand-coded methods are ineffective, while reinforcement learning can provide more general and useful policy. Although the reinforcement learning is able to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Nan Lin , Linrui Zhang , Yuxuan Chen , Zhenrui Chen , Yujun Zhu , Ruoxi Chen , Peichen Wu , Xiaoping Chen

Deep reinforcement learning has proven to be a great success in allowing agents to learn complex tasks. However, its application to actual robots can be prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, the unpredictability of human behavior in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mohammad Thabet , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Angelo Cangelosi

We propose a novel formulation of robotic pick and place as a deep reinforcement learning (RL) problem. Whereas most deep RL approaches to robotic manipulation frame the problem in terms of low level states and actions, we propose a more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Marcus Gualtieri , Andreas ten Pas , Robert Platt

While deep learning enables real robots to perform complex tasks had been difficult to implement in the past, the challenge is the enormous amount of trial-and-error and motion teaching in a real environment. The manipulation of moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Kenjiro Yamamoto , Hiroshi Ito , Hideyuki Ichiwara , Hiroki Mori , Tetsuya Ogata

Visual model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable sample-efficient robot learning from visual observations. Yet the current approaches typically train a single model end-to-end for learning both visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Younggyo Seo , Danijar Hafner , Hao Liu , Fangchen Liu , Stephen James , Kimin Lee , Pieter Abbeel