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Sample-efficient domain adaptation is an open problem in robotics. In this paper, we present affine transport -- a variant of optimal transport, which models the mapping between state transition distributions between the source and target…

In this paper we target the problem of transferring policies across multiple environments with different dynamics parameters and motor noise variations, by introducing a framework that decouples the processes of policy learning and system…

Traditional place categorization approaches in robot vision assume that training and test images have similar visual appearance. Therefore, any seasonal, illumination and environmental changes typically lead to severe degradation in…

Simulation based learning often provides a cost-efficient recourse to reinforcement learning applications in robotics. However, simulators are generally incapable of accurately replicating real-world dynamics, and thus bridging the sim2real…

We explore sim-to-real transfer of deep reinforcement learning controllers for a heavy vehicle with active suspensions designed for traversing rough terrain. While related research primarily focuses on lightweight robots with electric…

Generating large-scale synthetic data in simulation is a feasible alternative to collecting/labelling real data for training vision-based deep learning models, albeit the modelling inaccuracies do not generalize to the physical world. In…

Diffusion policies have shown impressive results in robot imitation learning, even for tasks that require satisfaction of kinematic equality constraints. However, task performance alone is not a reliable indicator of the policy's ability to…

Domain adaptation algorithms are designed to minimize the misclassification risk of a discriminative model for a target domain with little training data by adapting a model from a source domain with a large amount of training data. Standard…

A popular paradigm in robotic learning is to train a policy from scratch for every new robot. This is not only inefficient but also often impractical for complex robots. In this work, we consider the problem of transferring a policy across…

At the heart of many robotics problems is the challenge of learning correspondences across domains. For instance, imitation learning requires obtaining correspondence between humans and robots; sim-to-real requires correspondence between…

Co-training, which combines limited in-domain real-world data with abundant surrogate data such as simulation or cross-embodiment robot data, is widely used for training generative robot policies. Despite its empirical success, the…

Sim-to-real transfer remains a critical bottleneck for deploying dexterous manipulation policies learned in simulation to real-world robots. Existing approaches rely on manually designed domain randomization or task-specific adaptation,…

Existing calibration algorithms address the problem of covariate shift via unsupervised domain adaptation. However, these methods suffer from the following limitations: 1) they require unlabeled data from the target domain, which may not be…

Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under severe resource constraints are fundamental challenges that limit the deployment of small autonomous drones. We address these challenges in the context of…

Ensuring generalization to unseen environments remains a challenge. Domain shift can lead to substantially degraded performance unless shifts are well-exercised within the available training environments. We introduce a simple robust…

Large-scale labeled training datasets have enabled deep neural networks to excel on a wide range of benchmark vision tasks. However, in many applications it is prohibitively expensive or time-consuming to obtain large quantities of labeled…

In robotic reinforcement learning, the Sim2Real gap remains a critical challenge. However, the impact of Static friction on Sim2Real has been underexplored. Conventional domain randomization methods typically exclude Static friction from…

The goal of domain generalization algorithms is to predict well on distributions different from those seen during training. While a myriad of domain generalization algorithms exist, inconsistencies in experimental conditions -- datasets,…

Researchers have been facing a difficult problem that data generation mechanisms could be influenced by internal or external factors leading to the training and test data with quite different distributions, consequently traditional…

Cotraining with demonstration data generated both in simulation and on real hardware has emerged as a promising recipe for scaling imitation learning in robotics. This work seeks to elucidate basic principles of this sim-and-real cotraining…