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Legged robots pose one of the greatest challenges in robotics. Dynamic and agile maneuvers of animals cannot be imitated by existing methods that are crafted by humans. A compelling alternative is reinforcement learning, which requires…

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising method to learn control policies for robots only from demonstration and experience. To cover the whole dynamic behaviour of the robot, DRL training is an active exploration process typically…

Classical control techniques such as PID and LQR have been used effectively in maintaining a system state, but these techniques become more difficult to implement when the model dynamics increase in complexity and sensitivity. For adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jack Dibachi , Jacob Azoulay

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been proven to be a powerful paradigm for learning complex control policy autonomously. Numerous recent applications of DRL in robotic grasping have successfully trained DRL robotic agents end-to-end,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Zhixin Chen , Mengxiang Lin , Zhixin Jia , Shibo Jian

For legged robots to match the athletic capabilities of humans and animals, they must not only produce robust periodic walking and running, but also seamlessly switch between nominal locomotion gaits and more specialized transient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Fangzhou Yu , Ryan Batke , Jeremy Dao , Jonathan Hurst , Kevin Green , Alan Fern

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

Robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown great potential in improving the performance of mobile robots. Nevertheless, most existing DRL-based navigation methods primarily focus on training a policy that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Quecheng Qiu , Hanyu Wang , Lu Zhang , Jianmin Ji

Recent work on sim-to-real learning for bipedal locomotion has demonstrated new levels of robustness and agility over a variety of terrains. However, that work, and most prior bipedal locomotion work, have not considered locomotion under a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jeremy Dao , Kevin Green , Helei Duan , Alan Fern , Jonathan Hurst

Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Given the difficulty of designing such controllers manually,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedro Santana

Bipedal robots, due to their anthropomorphic design, offer substantial potential across various applications, yet their control is hindered by the complexity of their structure. Currently, most research focuses on proprioception-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Fu Chen , Rui Wan , Peidong Liu , Nanxing Zheng , Bo Zhou

The design of feedback controllers for bipedal robots is challenging due to the hybrid nature of its dynamics and the complexity imposed by high-dimensional bipedal models. In this paper, we present a novel approach for the design of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Guillermo A. Castillo , Bowen Weng , Ayonga Hereid , Wei Zhang

Designing agile locomotion for quadruped robots often requires extensive expertise and tedious manual tuning. In this paper, we present a system to automate this process by leveraging deep reinforcement learning techniques. Our system can…

In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) based quadrupedal locomotion control has emerged as an extensively researched field, driven by the potential advantages of autonomous learning and adaptation compared to traditional control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Maurya Gurram , Prakash Kumar Uttam , Shantipal S. Ohol

We present a deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) algorithm that consists of learning-based motion planning and imitation to tackle challenging control problems. Deep RL has been an effective tool for solving many high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Nitish Sontakke , Sehoon Ha

We present a novel reinforcement learning method to train the quadruped robot in a simulated environment. The idea of controlling quadruped robots in a dynamic environment is quite challenging and my method presents the optimum policy and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Nabeel Ahmad Khan Jadoon , Mongkol Ekpanyapong

Legged robots are becoming increasingly powerful and popular in recent years for their potential to bring the mobility of autonomous agents to the next level. This work presents a deep reinforcement learning approach that learns a robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Zhaocheng Liu , Fernando Acero , Zhibin Li

Existing navigation policies for autonomous robots tend to focus on collision avoidance while ignoring human-robot interactions in social life. For instance, robots can pass along the corridor safer and easier if pedestrians notice them.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Quecheng Qiu , Shunyi Yao , Jing Wang , Jun Ma , Guangda Chen , Jianmin Ji

Reliable bipedal walking over complex terrain is a challenging problem, using a curriculum can help learning. Curriculum learning is the idea of starting with an achievable version of a task and increasing the difficulty as a success…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Brendan Tidd , Nicolas Hudson , Akansel Cosgun

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables robots to learn complex behaviors through interaction with the environment. However, due to the unrestricted nature of the learning algorithms, the resulting solutions are often brittle and appear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Oliver Hausdörfer , Alexander von Rohr , Éric Lefort , Angela Schoellig

Deep reinforcement learning is a promising approach to learning policies in uncontrolled environments that do not require domain knowledge. Unfortunately, due to sample inefficiency, deep RL applications have primarily focused on simulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Laura Smith , Ilya Kostrikov , Sergey Levine