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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

Deep reinforcement learning has made significant strides in various robotic tasks. However, employing deep reinforcement learning methods to tackle multi-stage tasks still a challenge. Reinforcement learning algorithms often encounter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jiechao Deng , Ning Tan

Driving in dense traffic with human and autonomous drivers is a challenging task that requires high-level planning and reasoning. Human drivers can achieve this task comfortably, and there has been many efforts to model human driver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yigit Gurses , Kaan Buyukdemirci , Yildiray Yildiz

Learning policies in simulation and transferring them to the real world has become a promising approach in dexterous manipulation. However, bridging the sim-to-real gap for each new task requires substantial human effort, such as careful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Haozhi Qi , Brent Yi , Mike Lambeta , Yi Ma , Roberto Calandra , Jitendra Malik

This paper proposes an end-to-end deep reinforcement learning approach for mobile robot navigation with dynamic obstacles avoidance. Using experience collected in a simulation environment, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Guangda Chen , Lifan Pan , Yu'an Chen , Pei Xu , Zhiqiang Wang , Peichen Wu , Jianmin Ji , Xiaoping Chen

Recent successes combine reinforcement learning algorithms and deep neural networks, despite reinforcement learning not being widely applied to robotics and real world scenarios. This can be attributed to the fact that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Vinicius G. Goecks

The aim of this paper is to study how to apply deep reinforcement learning for the control of aggregates of minimalistic robots. We define aggregates as groups of robots with a physical connection that compels them to form a specified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Joshua Bloom , Apratim Mukherjee , Carlo Pinciroli

This paper proposes a detailed and extensive comparison of the Trust Region Policy Optimization and DeepQ-Network with Normalized Advantage Functions with respect to other state of the art algorithms, namely Deep Deterministic Policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Andrea Franceschetti , Elisa Tosello , Nicola Castaman , Stefano Ghidoni

Efficiently aggregating spatial or temporal horizons to acquire compact representations has become a unifying principle in modern deep learning models, yet learning data-adaptive representations for long-horizon sequence data, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yulun Wu , Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , Samuel Sharpe , Nikita Seleznev , Dehao Yuan , Hyeji Kim , Nam H. Nguyen

Complex high-dimensional spaces with high Degree-of-Freedom and complicated action spaces, such as humanoid robots equipped with dexterous hands, pose significant challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which need to wisely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zifeng Zhuang , Diyuan Shi , Runze Suo , Xiao He , Hongyin Zhang , Ting Wang , Shangke Lyu , Donglin Wang

Legged locomotion is a challenging task for learning algorithms, especially when the task requires a diverse set of primitive behaviors. To solve these problems, we introduce a hierarchical framework to automatically decompose complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Deepali Jain , Atil Iscen , Ken Caluwaerts

Learning to play table tennis is a challenging task for robots, as a wide variety of strokes required. Recent advances have shown that deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is able to successfully learn the optimal actions in a simulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yapeng Gao , Jonas Tebbe , Andreas Zell

Although robotic applications increasingly demand versatile and dynamic object handling, most existing techniques are predominantly focused on grasp-based manipulation, limiting their applicability in non-prehensile tasks. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hamidreza Raei , Elena De Momi , Arash Ajoudani

One of the key challenges in applying reinforcement learning to real-life problems is that the amount of train-and-error required to learn a good policy increases drastically as the task becomes complex. One potential solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Kazeto Yamamoto , Takashi Onishi , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Reinforcement learning (RL) can automate a wide variety of robotic skills, but learning each new skill requires considerable real-world data collection and manual representation engineering to design policy classes or features. Using deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Coline Devin , Abhishek Gupta , Trevor Darrell , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Recent advances of locomotion controllers utilizing deep reinforcement learning (RL) have yielded impressive results in terms of achieving rapid and robust locomotion across challenging terrain, such as rugged rocks, non-rigid ground, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zifan Xu , Amir Hossain Raj , Xuesu Xiao , Peter Stone

Considering its advantages in dealing with high-dimensional visual input and learning control policies in discrete domain, Deep Q Network (DQN) could be an alternative method of traditional auto-focus means in the future. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Xiaofan Yu , Runze Yu , Jingsong Yang , Xiaohui Duan

This paper proposes a new control framework for manipulating soft objects. A Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach is used to make the shape of a deformable object reach a set of desired points by controlling a robotic arm which…

Skilled robot task learning is best implemented by predictive action policies due to the inherent latency of sensorimotor processes. However, training such predictive policies is challenging as it involves finding a trajectory of motor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Ali Ghadirzadeh , Atsuto Maki , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

A hallmark of intelligent agents is the ability to learn reusable skills purely from unsupervised interaction with the environment. However, existing unsupervised skill discovery methods often learn entangled skills where one skill variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jiaheng Hu , Zizhao Wang , Peter Stone , Roberto Martín-Martín