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In-hand manipulation and grasping are fundamental yet often separately addressed tasks in robotics. For deriving in-hand manipulation policies, reinforcement learning has recently shown great success. However, the derived controllers are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lennart Röstel , Dominik Winkelbauer , Johannes Pitz , Leon Sievers , Berthold Bäuml

Task-aware robotic grasping is a challenging problem that requires the integration of semantic understanding and geometric reasoning. This paper proposes a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) and Quality Diversity…

With the rapidly growing expansion in the use of UAVs, the ability to autonomously navigate in varying environments and weather conditions remains a highly desirable but as-of-yet unsolved challenge. In this work, we use Deep Reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Bruna G. Maciel-Pearson , Letizia Marchegiani , Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , James Garforth , Toby P. Breckon

Robotic grasp detection is a fundamental capability for intelligent manipulation in unstructured environments. Previous work mainly employed visual and tactile fusion to achieve stable grasp, while, the whole process depending heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Teng Xue , Wenhai Liu , Mingshuo Han , Zhenyu Pan , Jin Ma , Quanquan Shao , Weiming Wang

Precise manipulation that is generalizable across scenes and objects remains a persistent challenge in robotics. Current approaches for this task heavily depend on having a significant number of training instances to handle objects with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jack Rome , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Oisin Mac Aodha , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

This paper presents a decentralized leader-follower multi-robot formation control based on a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm applied to a swarm of small educational Sphero robots. Since the basic Q-learning method is known to require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Juraj Obradovic , Marko Krizmancic , Stjepan Bogdan

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) based remote sensing (RS) image semantic segmentation technology has achieved great success used in many real-world applications such as geographic element analysis. However, strong dependency on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Qi Zhao , Shuchang Lyu , Binghao Liu , Lijiang Chen , Hongbo Zhao

One of the major challenges in Deep Reinforcement Learning for control is the need for extensive training to learn the policy. Motivated by this, we present the design of the Control-Tutored Deep Q-Networks (CT-DQN) algorithm, a Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Francesco De Lellis , Marco Coraggio , Giovanni Russo , Mirco Musolesi , Mario di Bernardo

Reliable object grasping is one of the fundamental tasks in robotics. However, determining grasping pose based on single-image input has long been a challenge due to limited visual information and the complexity of real-world objects. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yiming Li , Hanchi Ren , Yue Yang , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Dynamic grasping of moving objects in complex, continuous motion scenarios remains challenging. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been applied in various robotic manipulation tasks, benefiting from its closed-loop property. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Pengwei Xie , Siang Chen , Qianrun Chen , Wei Tang , Dingchang Hu , Yixiang Dai , Rui Chen , Guijin Wang

When transferring a Deep Reinforcement Learning model from simulation to the real world, the performance could be unsatisfactory since the simulation cannot imitate the real world well in many circumstances. This results in a long period of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wenxing Liu , Hanlin Niu , Robert Skilton , Joaquin Carrasco

Although deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have been successfully applied in challenging tasks, their application in real-world operational settings is challenged by methods' limited ability to provide explanations. Among the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Andreas Kontogiannis , George Vouros

We use reinforcement learning in simulation to obtain a driving system controlling a full-size real-world vehicle. The driving policy takes RGB images from a single camera and their semantic segmentation as input. We use mostly synthetic…

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

Dexterous hands exhibit significant potential for complex real-world grasping tasks. While recent studies have primarily focused on learning policies for specific robotic hands, the development of a universal policy that controls diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Haoqi Yuan , Bohan Zhou , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

Reinforcement learning is a promising method for robotic grasping as it can learn effective reaching and grasping policies in difficult scenarios. However, achieving human-like manipulation capabilities with sophisticated robotic hands is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Martin Schuck , Jan Brüdigam , Alexandre Capone , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

Over the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in adopting deep neural networks to enhance the performance of conventional reinforcement learning. A notable milestone was the development of Deep Q-Networks (DQN), which achieved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Klinsmann Agyei , Pouria Sarhadi , Daniel Polani

Grasp synthesis is one of the challenging tasks for any robot object manipulation task. In this paper, we present a new deep learning-based grasp synthesis approach for 3D objects. In particular, we propose an end-to-end 3D Convolutional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yikun Li , Lambert Schomaker , S. Hamidreza Kasaei

This paper presents a technique for navigation of mobile robot with Deep Q-Network (DQN) combined with Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). The DQN integrated with the GRU allows action skipping for improved navigation performance. This technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Inhwan Kim , Sarvar Hussain Nengroo , Dongsoo Har

Large Vision Models trained on internet-scale data have demonstrated strong capabilities in segmenting and semantically understanding object parts, even in cluttered, crowded scenes. However, while these models can direct a robot toward the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ray Muxin Liu , Mingxuan Li , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak