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With the development of industry, drones are appearing in various field. In recent years, deep reinforcement learning has made impressive gains in games, and we are committed to applying deep reinforcement learning algorithms to the field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Z. Jiang , G. Song

Data driven robotics relies upon accurate real-world representations to learn useful policies. Despite our best-efforts, zero-shot sim-to-real transfer is still an unsolved problem, and we often need to allow our agents to explore online to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Alexander Quessy , Thomas Richardson

Simulation-to-simulation and simulation-to-real world transfer of neural network models have been a difficult problem. To close the reality gap, prior methods to simulation-to-real world transfer focused on domain adaptation, decoupling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Sahika Genc , Sunil Mallya , Sravan Bodapati , Tao Sun , Yunzhe Tao

Recent advancements in computer graphics technology allow more realistic ren-dering of car driving environments. They have enabled self-driving car simulators such as DeepGTA-V and CARLA (Car Learning to Act) to generate large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Minh Cao , Ramin Ramezani

Learning to control robots directly based on images is a primary challenge in robotics. However, many existing reinforcement learning approaches require iteratively obtaining millions of robot samples to learn a policy, which can take…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-02 AJ Piergiovanni , Alan Wu , Michael S. Ryoo

Learning robust and generalizable world models is crucial for enabling efficient and scalable robotic control in real-world environments. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for learning world models that accurately capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenhao Li , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

In the last decade, data-driven approaches have become popular choices for quadrotor control, thanks to their ability to facilitate the adaptation to unknown or uncertain flight conditions. Among the different data-driven paradigms, Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Alberto Dionigi , Gabriele Costante , Giuseppe Loianno

The dominant way to control a robot manipulator uses hand-crafted differential equations leveraging some form of inverse kinematics / dynamics. We propose a simple, versatile joint-level controller that dispenses with differential equations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Visak Kumar , David Hoeller , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Jonathan Tremblay , Stan Birchfield

Fast and accurate physics simulation is an essential component of robot learning, where robots can explore failure scenarios that are difficult to produce in the real world and learn from unlimited on-policy data. Yet, it remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Alan Yu , Ge Yang , Ran Choi , Yajvan Ravan , John Leonard , Phillip Isola

Deep reinforcement learning has achieved great success in laser-based collision avoidance work because the laser can sense accurate depth information without too much redundant data, which can maintain the robustness of the algorithm when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Lingping Gao , Jianchuan Ding , Wenxi Liu , Haiyin Piao , Yuxin Wang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin

Deep learning methods have revolutionized mobile robotics, from advanced perception models for an enhanced situational awareness to novel control approaches through reinforcement learning. This paper explores the potential of federated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Xianjia Yu , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

In this paper, we explore deep reinforcement learning algorithms for vision-based robotic grasping. Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a range of challenging environments, but the proliferation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Deirdre Quillen , Eric Jang , Ofir Nachum , Chelsea Finn , Julian Ibarz , Sergey Levine

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training autonomous vehicles (AV) to navigate complex traffic environments by mimicking expert driver behaviors. While existing imitation learning frameworks focus on leveraging expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yasin Sonmez , Hanna Krasowski , Murat Arcak

Learning robust robot policies in real-world environments requires diverse data augmentation, yet scaling real-world data collection is costly due to the need for acquiring physical assets and reconfiguring environments. Therefore,…

Learning-based methods, particularly Reinforcement Learning (RL), hold great promise for streamlining deployment, enhancing performance, and achieving generalization in the control of autonomous multirotor aerial vehicles. Deep RL has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jonas Eschmann , Dario Albani , Giuseppe Loianno

Reinforcement learning has shown a wide usage in robotics tasks, such as insertion and grasping. However, without a practical sim2real strategy, the policy trained in simulation could fail on the real task. There are also wide researches in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiwen Chen , Xue Li , Sheng Guo , Xian Yao Ng , Marcelo Ang

Teams of autonomous unmanned aircraft can be used to monitor wildfires, enabling firefighters to make informed decisions. However, controlling multiple autonomous fixed-wing aircraft to maximize forest fire coverage is a complex problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Data driven approaches for decision making applied to automated driving require appropriate generalization strategies, to ensure applicability to the world's variability. Current approaches either do not generalize well beyond the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Karl Kurzer , Philip Schörner , Alexander Albers , Hauke Thomsen , Karam Daaboul , J. Marius Zöllner

Obstacle avoidance is a fundamental vision-based task essential for enabling quadrotors to perform advanced applications. When planning the trajectory, existing approaches both on optimization and learning typically regard quadrotor as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Fanxing Li , Shengyang Wang , Yuxiang Huang , Fangyu Sun , Shuyu Wu , Yufei Yan , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu

Unstructured environments are difficult for autonomous driving. This is because various unknown obstacles are lied in drivable space without lanes, and its width and curvature change widely. In such complex environments, searching for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Joonwoo Ahn , Minsoo Kim , Jaeheung Park