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We present IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal (I2O), an end-to-end learned visual navigation approach, trained solely in simulated short-range indoor environments, and demonstrates zero-shot sim-to-real transfer to the outdoors for long-range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Joanne Truong , April Zitkovich , Sonia Chernova , Dhruv Batra , Tingnan Zhang , Jie Tan , Wenhao Yu

Simulation-to-Real (Sim2Real) transfer learning, the machine learning technique that efficiently solves a real-world task by leveraging knowledge from computational data, has received increasing attention in materials science as a promising…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yuta Yahagi , Kiichi Obuchi , Fumihiko Kosaka , Kota Matsui

Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sumeet Batra , Gaurav Sukhatme

Sim-to-real transfer trains RL agents in the simulated environments and then deploys them in the real world. Sim-to-real transfer has been widely used in practice because it is often cheaper, safer and much faster to collect samples in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jiachen Hu , Han Zhong , Chi Jin , Liwei Wang

Acquiring dynamics is an essential topic in robot learning, but up-to-date methods, such as dynamics randomization, need to restart to check nominal parameters, generate simulation data, and train networks whenever they face different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Dengpeng Xing , Jiale Li , Yiming Yang , Bo Xu

Clinical machine learning models experience significantly degraded performance in datasets not seen during training, e.g., new hospitals or populations. Recent developments in domain generalization offer a promising solution to this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Haoran Zhang , Natalie Dullerud , Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari , Quaid Morris , Shalmali Joshi , Marzyeh Ghassemi

We introduce Dream2Real, a robotics framework which integrates vision-language models (VLMs) trained on 2D data into a 3D object rearrangement pipeline. This is achieved by the robot autonomously constructing a 3D representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Ivan Kapelyukh , Yifei Ren , Ignacio Alzugaray , Edward Johns

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

We present Sym2Real, a fully data-driven framework that provides a principled way to train low-level adaptive controllers in a highly data-efficient manner. Using only about 10 trajectories, we achieve robust control of both a quadrotor and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Easop Lee , Samuel A. Moore , Boyuan Chen

Sim2real transfer has received increasing attention lately due to the success of learning robotic tasks in simulation end-to-end. While there has been a lot of progress in transferring vision-based navigation policies, the existing sim2real…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Changan Chen , Jordi Ramos , Anshul Tomar , Kristen Grauman

In this paper, we deal with the reality gap from a novel perspective, targeting transferring Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies learned in simulated environments to the real-world domain for visual control tasks. Instead of adopting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Jingwei Zhang , Lei Tai , Peng Yun , Yufeng Xiong , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

To tackle the "reality gap" encountered in Sim-to-Real transfer, this study proposes a diffusion-based framework that minimizes inconsistencies in grasping actions between the simulation settings and realistic environments. The process…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yiwei Li , Zihao Wu , Huaqin Zhao , Tianze Yang , Zhengliang Liu , Peng Shu , Jin Sun , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Tianming Liu

We are concerned with learning models that generalize well to different \emph{unseen} domains. We consider a worst-case formulation over data distributions that are near the source domain in the feature space. Only using training data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Riccardo Volpi , Hongseok Namkoong , Ozan Sener , John Duchi , Vittorio Murino , Silvio Savarese

Deep learning and data-driven approaches have shown great potential in scientific domains. The promise of data-driven techniques relies on the availability of a large volume of high-quality training datasets. Due to the high cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yuxin Yang , Xitong Zhang , Qiang Guan , Youzuo Lin

Dataset augmentation, the practice of applying a wide array of domain-specific transformations to synthetically expand a training set, is a standard tool in supervised learning. While effective in tasks such as visual recognition, the set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-21 Terrance DeVries , Graham W. Taylor

Reliable perception during fast motion maneuvers or in high dynamic range environments is crucial for robotic systems. Since event cameras are robust to these challenging conditions, they have great potential to increase the reliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Domain Randomization (DR) is commonly used for sim2real transfer of reinforcement learning (RL) policies in robotics. Most DR approaches require a simulator with a fixed set of tunable parameters from the start of the training, from which…

The generalization ability of visuomotor policy is crucial, as a good policy should be deployable across diverse scenarios. Some methods can collect large amounts of trajectory augmentation data to train more generalizable imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hanwen Wang

Zero-shot sim-to-real transfer of tasks with complex dynamics is a highly challenging and unsolved problem. A number of solutions have been proposed in recent years, but we have found that many works do not present a thorough evaluation in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Eugene Valassakis , Zihan Ding , Edward Johns

Automation holds the potential to assist surgeons in robotic interventions, shifting their mental work load from visuomotor control to high level decision making. Reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning complex…