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Multi-agent control problems constitute an interesting area of application for deep reinforcement learning models with continuous action spaces. Such real-world applications, however, typically come with critical safety constraints that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Ziyad Sheebaelhamd , Konstantinos Zisis , Athina Nisioti , Dimitris Gkouletsos , Dario Pavllo , Jonas Kohler

This paper presents a reinforcement learning-based neuroadaptive control framework for robotic manipulators operating under deferred constraints. The proposed approach improves traditional barrier Lyapunov functions by introducing a smooth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hamed Rahimi Nohooji , Abolfazl Zaraki , Holger Voos

When encountering novel objects, humans are able to infer a wide range of physical properties such as mass, friction and deformability by interacting with them in a goal driven way. This process of active interaction is in the same spirit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-21 Misha Denil , Pulkit Agrawal , Tejas D Kulkarni , Tom Erez , Peter Battaglia , Nando de Freitas

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

Deep reinforcement learning enables algorithms to learn complex behavior, deal with continuous action spaces and find good strategies in environments with high dimensional state spaces. With deep reinforcement learning being an active area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Winfried Lötzsch

Recent advancements in model-free deep reinforcement learning have enabled efficient agent training. However, challenges arise when determining the region of attraction for these controllers, especially if the region does not fully cover…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Armin Ghanbarzadeh , Esmaeil Najafi

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

Deep learning has provided new ways of manipulating, processing and analyzing data. It sometimes may achieve results comparable to, or surpassing human expert performance, and has become a source of inspiration in the era of artificial…

We consider the problem of reinforcement learning under safety requirements, in which an agent is trained to complete a given task, typically formalized as the maximization of a reward signal over time, while concurrently avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Tu-Hoa Pham , Giovanni De Magistris , Don Joven Agravante , Subhajit Chaudhury , Asim Munawar , Ryuki Tachibana

Robotic manipulation of slender objects is challenging, especially when the induced deformations are large and nonlinear. Traditionally, learning-based control approaches, such as imitation learning, have been used to address deformable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Andrew Choi , Dezhong Tong , Demetri Terzopoulos , Jungseock Joo , M. Khalid Jawed

Pretraining with expert demonstrations have been found useful in speeding up the training process of deep reinforcement learning algorithms since less online simulation data is required. Some people use supervised learning to speed up the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Xiaoqin Zhang , Huimin Ma

Recommendation is crucial in both academia and industry, and various techniques are proposed such as content-based collaborative filtering, matrix factorization, logistic regression, factorization machines, neural networks and multi-armed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Feng Liu , Ruiming Tang , Xutao Li , Weinan Zhang , Yunming Ye , Haokun Chen , Huifeng Guo , Yuzhou Zhang

Humans can infer accurate mechanical outcomes from only a few observations, a capability known as mechanics intuition. The mechanisms behind such data-efficient learning remain unclear. Here, we propose a reinforcement learning framework in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jingruo Peng , Shuze Zhu

Robots often face situations where grasping a goal object is desirable but not feasible due to other present objects preventing the grasp action. We present a deep Reinforcement Learning approach to learn grasping and pushing policies for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yongliang Wang , Kamal Mokhtar , Cock Heemskerk , Hamidreza Kasaei

Grasping objects under uncertainty remains an open problem in robotics research. This uncertainty is often due to noisy or partial observations of the object pose or shape. To enable a robot to react appropriately to unforeseen effects, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Hamza Merzic , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Daniel Kappler , Ludovic Righetti , Jeannette Bohg

Intelligent agents rely heavily on prior experience when learning a new task, yet most modern reinforcement learning (RL) approaches learn every task from scratch. One approach for leveraging prior knowledge is to transfer skills learned on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Karl Pertsch , Youngwoon Lee , Joseph J. Lim

Autonomy is a key challenge for future space exploration endeavours. Deep Reinforcement Learning holds the promises for developing agents able to learn complex behaviours simply by interacting with their environment. This paper investigates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Matteo El Hariry , Andrea Cini , Giacomo Mellone , Alessandro Balossino

Grasping objects of different shapes and sizes - a foundational, effortless skill for humans - remains a challenging task in robotics. Although model-based approaches can predict stable grasp configurations for known object models, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Malte Mosbach , Sven Behnke

This paper proposes a novel approach by integrating sensor fusion with deep reinforcement learning, specifically the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm, to develop an optimal control policy for self-driving cars. Our system employs a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Amin Jalal Aghdasian , Amirhossein Heydarian Ardakani , Kianoush Aqabakee , Farzaneh Abdollahi

Humans can achieve diverse in-hand manipulations, such as object pinching and tool use, which often involve simultaneous contact between the object and multiple fingers. This is still an open issue for robotic hands because such dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Pranav Ponnivalavan , Satoshi Funabashi , Alexander Schmitz , Tetsuya Ogata , Shigeki Sugano