English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning Modular Neural Network Policies for Multi…

200 papers

Studies that broaden drone applications into complex tasks require a stable control framework. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been exploited in many studies for robot control to accomplish complex tasks.…

In open-ended continuous environments, robots need to learn multiple parameterised control tasks in hierarchical reinforcement learning. We hypothesise that the most complex tasks can be learned more easily by transferring knowledge from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Nicolas Duminy , Sao Mai Nguyen , Junshuai Zhu , Dominique Duhaut , Jerome Kerdreux

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields of study. This survey focuses on deep learning solutions that target learning control policies for robotics applications. We carry out…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Lei Tai , Jingwei Zhang , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Agents trained with deep reinforcement learning algorithms are capable of performing highly complex tasks including locomotion in continuous environments. We investigate transferring the learning acquired in one task to a set of previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Suzan Ece Ada , Emre Ugur , H. Levent Akin

We focus on the problem of teaching a robot to solve tasks presented sequentially, i.e., in a continual learning scenario. The robot should be able to solve all tasks it has encountered, without forgetting past tasks. We provide preliminary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 René Traoré , Hugo Caselles-Dupré , Timothée Lesort , Te Sun , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez , David Filliat

Transfer Learning (TL) is a powerful tool that enables robots to transfer learned policies across different environments, tasks, or embodiments. To further facilitate this process, efforts have been made to combine it with Learning from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Muhan Hou , Koen Hindriks , A. E. Eiben , Kim Baraka

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for autonomously acquiring complex behaviors from low level sensor observations. Although a large portion of deep RL research has focused on applications in video games…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Julian Ibarz , Jie Tan , Chelsea Finn , Mrinal Kalakrishnan , Peter Pastor , Sergey Levine

Team adaptation to new cooperative tasks is a hallmark of human intelligence, which has yet to be fully realized in learning agents. Previous work on multi-agent transfer learning accommodate teams of different sizes, heavily relying on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Rongjun Qin , Feng Chen , Tonghan Wang , Lei Yuan , Xiaoran Wu , Zongzhang Zhang , Chongjie Zhang , Yang Yu

Deep reinforcement learning has recently seen huge success across multiple areas in the robotics domain. Owing to the limitations of gathering real-world data, i.e., sample inefficiency and the cost of collecting it, simulation environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Wenshuai Zhao , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

The problem of multi-robot navigation of connectivity maintenance is challenging in multi-robot applications. This work investigates how to navigate a multi-robot team in unknown environments while maintaining connectivity. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Minghao Li , Yingrui Jie , Yang Kong , Hui Cheng

In this work we present a method for leveraging data from one source to learn how to do multiple new tasks. Task transfer is achieved using a self-model that encapsulates the dynamics of a system and serves as an environment for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Robert Kwiatkowski , Hod Lipson

Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a framework in which agents can be trained, via trial and error, to solve complex decision-making problems. Learning with little supervision causes RL methods to require large amounts of data, rendering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Sergio A. Serrano , Jose Martinez-Carranza , L. Enrique Sucar

We consider task allocation for multi-object transport using a multi-robot system, in which each robot selects one object among multiple objects with different and unknown weights. The existing centralized methods assume the number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Tadashi Odashima , Keisuke Takeshita , Takamitsu Matsubara

Training visual control policies from scratch on a new robot typically requires generating large amounts of robot-specific data. How might we leverage data previously collected on another robot to reduce or even completely remove this need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Edward S. Hu , Kun Huang , Oleh Rybkin , Dinesh Jayaraman

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been increasingly employed to handle the dynamic and complex resource management in network slicing. The deployment of DRL policies in real networks, however, is complicated by heterogeneous cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Georg Carle

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can find an optimal policy for a single agent to accomplish a particular task. However, many real-world problems require multiple agents to collaborate in order to achieve a common goal. For example, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jan Corazza , Hadi Partovi Aria , Hyohun Kim , Daniel Neider , Zhe Xu

Control policy learning for modular robot locomotion has previously been limited to proprioceptive feedback and flat terrain. This paper develops policies for modular systems with vision traversing more challenging environments. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Julian Whitman , Howie Choset

Reinforcement learning (RL) has drawn increasing interests in recent years due to its tremendous success in various applications. However, standard RL algorithms can only be applied for single reward function, and cannot adapt to an unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Ziyang Tang , Yihao Feng , Qiang Liu

Efficient and robust policy transfer remains a key challenge for reinforcement learning to become viable for real-wold robotics. Policy transfer through warm initialization, imitation, or interacting over a large set of agents with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary

In this paper, we present a new approach to Transfer Learning (TL) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for cross-domain tasks. Many of the available techniques approach the transfer architecture as a method of speeding up the target task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary