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Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments is a complex but essential task for autonomous robots, with recent deep reinforcement learning approaches showing promising results. However, the complexity of the real world makes it infeasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Diego Martinez-Baselga , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montano

Many physical AI tasks are governed by implicit equilibrium: an agent actuates a subset of degrees of freedom (boundary DoFs), while the remaining free DoFs settle by minimizing a total potential energy. Even seemingly basic tasks such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dezhong Tong , Jiawen Wang , Hengyi Zhou , Yinglong Shen , Xiaonan Huang , M. Khalid Jawed

Deep reinforcement learning provides a promising approach for vision-based control of real-world robots. However, the generalization of such models depends critically on the quantity and variety of data available for training. This data can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Katie Kang , Suneel Belkhale , Gregory Kahn , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Collision-free motion is essential for mobile robots. Most approaches to collision-free and efficient navigation with wheeled robots require parameter tuning by experts to obtain good navigation behavior. This study investigates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hamid Taheri , Seyed Rasoul Hosseini , Mohammad Ali Nekoui

We present a learning-based mapless motion planner by taking the sparse 10-dimensional range findings and the target position with respect to the mobile robot coordinate frame as input and the continuous steering commands as output.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Lei Tai , Giuseppe Paolo , Ming Liu

This investigation introduces a novel deep reinforcement learning-based suite to control floating platforms in both simulated and real-world environments. Floating platforms serve as versatile test-beds to emulate micro-gravity environments…

How can a delivery robot navigate reliably to a destination in a new office building, with minimal prior information? To tackle this challenge, this paper introduces a two-level hierarchical approach, which integrates model-free deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Wei Gao , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee , Shengmei Shen , Karthikk Subramanian

This paper presents a hierarchical framework based on deep reinforcement learning that learns a diversity of policies for humanoid balance control. Conventional zero moment point based controllers perform limited actions during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Chuanyu Yang , Taku Komura , Zhibin Li

This paper presents a hierarchical framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning that acquires motor skills for a variety of push recovery and balancing behaviors, i.e., ankle, hip, foot tilting, and stepping strategies. The policy is trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chuanyu Yang , Kai Yuan , Wolfgang Merkt , Taku Komura , Sethu Vijayakumar , Zhibin Li

Visual navigation is essential for many applications in robotics, from manipulation, through mobile robotics to automated driving. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides an elegant map-free approach integrating image processing,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

Robotic in-hand manipulation has been a long-standing challenge due to the complexity of modelling hand and object in contact and of coordinating finger motion for complex manipulation sequences. To address these challenges, the majority of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Tingguang Li , Krishnan Srinivasan , Max Qing-Hu Meng , Wenzhen Yuan , Jeannette Bohg

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has made it possible to solve complex robotics problems using neural networks as function approximators. However, the policies trained on stationary environments suffer in terms of generalization when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Aditya M. Deshpande , Ali A. Minai , Manish Kumar

Reinforcement learning provides a powerful and flexible framework for automated acquisition of robotic motion skills. However, applying reinforcement learning requires a sufficiently detailed representation of the state, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Chelsea Finn , Xin Yu Tan , Yan Duan , Trevor Darrell , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Fast and precise motion control is important for industrial robots in manufacturing applications. However, some collaborative robots sacrifice precision for safety, particular for high motion speed. The performance degradation is caused by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Shuyang Chen , John T. Wen

Most existing neural network-based approaches for solving stochastic optimal control problems using the associated backward dynamic programming principle rely on the ability to simulate the underlying state variables. However, in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-30 Christian Yeo

Object transportation could be a challenging problem for a single robot due to the oversize and/or overweight issues. A multi-robot system can take the advantage of increased driving power and more flexible configuration to solve such a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Lin Zhang , Hao Xiong , Ou Ma , Zhaokui Wang

In recent years, industrial robots have been installed in various industries to handle advanced manufacturing and high precision tasks. However, further integration of industrial robots is hampered by their limited flexibility, adaptability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oren Spector , Miriam Zacksenhouse

Synthesizing planning and control policies in robotics is a fundamental task, further complicated by factors such as complex logic specifications and high-dimensional robot dynamics. This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Zikang Xiong , Daniel Lawson , Joe Eappen , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Suresh Jagannathan

We describe an approach to learning optimal control policies for a large, linear particle accelerator using deep reinforcement learning coupled with a high-fidelity physics engine. The framework consists of an AI controller that uses deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Xiaoying Pang , Sunil Thulasidasan , Larry Rybarcyk

Quadrotors have demonstrated remarkable versatility, yet their full aerobatic potential remains largely untapped due to inherent underactuation and the complexity of aggressive maneuvers. Traditional approaches, separating trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zhichao Han , Xijie Huang , Zhuxiu Xu , Jiarui Zhang , Yuze Wu , Mingyang Wang , Tianyue Wu , Fei Gao