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Collaborative robots (cobots) are machines designed to work safely alongside people in human-centric environments. Providing cobots with the ability to quickly infer the inertial parameters of manipulated objects will improve their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Philippe Nadeau , Matthew Giamou , Jonathan Kelly

Efficient and accurate particle tracking is crucial for measuring Standard Model parameters and searching for new physics. This task consists of two major computational steps: track finding, the identification of a subset of all hits that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-16 Ryan Miller , Alexander Shmakov , Kyuho Oh , Jiwon Lee , Pierre Baldi , Levi Condren , Makayla Vessella , Daniel Whiteson

The dynamic, real-time, and accurate inference of model parameters from empirical data is of great importance in many scientific and engineering disciplines that use computational models (such as a digital twin) for the analysis and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yuan Tian , Manuel Arias Chao , Chetan Kulkarni , Kai Goebel , Olga Fink

The autonomous systems need to decide how to react to the changes at runtime efficiently. The ability to rigorously analyze the environment and the system together is theoretically possible by the model-driven approaches; however, the model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Melika Dastranj , Mehran Alidoost Nia , Mehdi Kargahi

Identifying predictive world models for robots in novel environments from sparse online observations is essential for robot task planning and execution in novel environments. However, existing methods that leverage differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yifan Zhu , Tianyi Xiang , Aaron Dollar , Zherong Pan

Guided policy search algorithms have been proven to work with incredible accuracy for not only controlling a complicated dynamical system, but also learning optimal policies from various unseen instances. One assumes true nature of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Prakash Mallick , Zhiyong Chen , Mohsen Zamani

Black-box policy optimization is a class of reinforcement learning algorithms that explores and updates the policies at the parameter level. This class of algorithms is widely applied in robotics with movement primitives or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Marius Memmel , Puze Liu , Davide Tateo , Jan Peters

The problem of reinforcement learning is considered where the environment or the model undergoes a change. An algorithm is proposed that an agent can apply in such a problem to achieve the optimal long-time discounted reward. The algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Wuxia Chen , Taposh Banerjee , Jemin George , Carl Busart

High-dimensional optimization is a critical challenge for operating large-scale scientific facilities. We apply a physics-informed Gaussian process (GP) optimizer to tune a complex system by conducting efficient global search. Typical GP…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Adi Hanuka , X. Huang , J. Shtalenkova , D. Kennedy , A. Edelen , V. R. Lalchand , D. Ratner , J. Duris

Neural control of memory-constrained, agile robots requires small, yet highly performant models. We leverage graph hyper networks to learn graph hyper policies trained with off-policy reinforcement learning resulting in networks that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shashank Hegde , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Model-free reinforcement learning algorithms can compute policy gradients given sampled environment transitions, but require large amounts of data. In contrast, model-based methods can use the learned model to generate new data, but model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Lukas P. Fröhlich , Maksym Lefarov , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Felix Berkenkamp

Complex systems in science and engineering sometimes exhibit behavior that changes across different regimes. Traditional global models struggle to capture the full range of this complex behavior, limiting their ability to accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Okezzi F. Ukorigho , Opeoluwa Owoyele

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great success in learning complex control policies for a variety of applications in robotics. However, in most such cases, the hardware of the robot has been considered immutable, modeled as part…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Tianjian Chen , Zhanpeng He , Matei Ciocarlie

We present a fast and effective policy framework for robotic manipulation, named Energy Policy, designed for high-frequency robotic tasks and resource-constrained systems. Unlike existing robotic policies, Energy Policy natively predicts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jingkai Jia , Tong Yang , Xueyao Chen , Chenhuan Liu , Wenqiang Zhang

Real time applications such as robotic require real time actions based on the immediate available data. Machine learning and artificial intelligence rely on high volume of training informative data set to propose a comprehensive and useful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Masoud Baghbahari , Aman Behal

Knowledge of terrain's physical properties inferred from color images can aid in making efficient robotic locomotion plans. However, unlike image classification, it is unintuitive for humans to label image patches with physical properties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Gabriel B. Margolis , Xiang Fu , Yandong Ji , Pulkit Agrawal

Reinforcement Learning has been able to solve many complicated robotics tasks without any need for feature engineering in an end-to-end fashion. However, learning the optimal policy directly from the sensory inputs, i.e the observations,…

In this paper, we present our approach to solve a physics-based reinforcement learning challenge "Learning to Run" with objective to train physiologically-based human model to navigate a complex obstacle course as quickly as possible. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mikhail Pavlov , Sergey Kolesnikov , Sergey M. Plis

We present parametric trajectory optimization, a method for simultaneously computing physical parameters, actuation requirements, and robot motions for more efficient robot designs. In this scheme, robot dimensions, masses, and other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Andrew Spielberg , Brandon Araki , Cynthia Sung , Russ Tedrake , Daniela Rus

Accelerator physics relies on numerical algorithms to solve optimization problems in online accelerator control and tasks such as experimental design and model calibration in simulations. The effectiveness of optimization algorithms in…