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Learning-based adaptive control methods hold the premise of enabling autonomous agents to reduce the effect of process variations with minimal human intervention. However, its application to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has so far…

Quadrupedal robots exhibit remarkable adaptability in unstructured environments, making them well-suited for formation control in real-world applications. However, keeping stable formations while ensuring collision-free navigation presents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Weishu Zhan , Zheng Liang , Hongyu Song , Wei Pan

This paper introduces a learning-based low-level controller for quadcopters, which adaptively controls quadcopters with significant variations in mass, size, and actuator capabilities. Our approach leverages a combination of imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Dingqi Zhang , Antonio Loquercio , Jerry Tang , Ting-Hao Wang , Jitendra Malik , Mark W. Mueller

Soft robotic manipulators offer operational advantage due to their compliant and deformable structures. However, their inherently nonlinear dynamics presents substantial challenges. Traditional analytical methods often depend on simplifying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Uljad Berdica , Matthew Jackson , Niccolò Enrico Veronese , Jakob Foerster , Perla Maiolino

In this paper, we investigate the adaptive control problem for robot manipulators with both the uncertain kinematics and dynamics. We propose two adaptive control schemes to realize the objective of task-space trajectory tracking…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Hanlei Wang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has seen many recent successes for quadruped robot control. The imitation of reference motions provides a simple and powerful prior for guiding solutions towards desired solutions without the need for meticulous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuni Fuchioka , Zhaoming Xie , Michiel van de Panne

With the advent of intelligent transport, quadrotors are becoming an attractive solution while lifting or dropping payloads during emergency evacuations, construction works, etc. During such operations, dynamic variations in (possibly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan

Climbing, crouching, bridging gaps, and walking up stairs are just a few of the advantages that quadruped robots have over wheeled robots, making them more suitable for navigating rough and unstructured terrain. However, executing such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Guillaume Gagné-Labelle , Vassil Atanassov , Ioannis Havoutis

Quadruped robots have the distinct ability to adapt their body and step height to navigate through cluttered environments. Nonetheless, for these robots to utilize their full potential in real-world scenarios, they require awareness of…

Numerous locomotion controllers have been designed based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) to facilitate blind quadrupedal locomotion traversing challenging terrains. Nevertheless, locomotion control is still a challenging task for quadruped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhiyuan Xiao , Xinyu Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Qingrui Zhang

Bipedal locomotion is a key challenge in robotics, particularly for robots like Bolt, which have a point-foot design. This study explores the control of such underactuated robots using constrained reinforcement learning, addressing their…

Local-remote systems allow robots to execute complex tasks in hazardous environments such as space and nuclear power stations. However, establishing accurate positional mapping between local and remote devices can be difficult due to time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Luc McCutcheon , Saber Fallah

We propose a novel adaptive reinforcement learning control approach for fault tolerant control of degrading systems that is not preceded by a fault detection and diagnosis step. Therefore, \textit{a priori} knowledge of faults that may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quiñones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

In socially assistive robotics, an important research area is the development of adaptation techniques and their effect on human-robot interaction. We present a meta-learning based policy gradient method for addressing the problem of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Yuan Gao , Elena Sibirtseva , Ginevra Castellano , Danica Kragic

Quadruped robots are increasingly used in various applications due to their high mobility and ability to operate in diverse terrains. However, most available quadruped robots are primarily focused on mobility without object manipulation…

Precise arbitrary trajectory tracking for quadrotors is challenging due to unknown nonlinear dynamics, trajectory infeasibility, and actuation limits. To tackle these challenges, we present Deep Adaptive Trajectory Tracking (DATT), a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kevin Huang , Rwik Rana , Alexander Spitzer , Guanya Shi , Byron Boots

Adaptive control can be applied to robotic systems with parameter uncertainties, but improving its performance is usually difficult, especially under discontinuous friction. Inspired by the human motor learning control mechanism, an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yongping Pan , Kai Guo , Tairen Sun , Mohamed Darouach

In this work, we consider a group of robots working together to manipulate a rigid object to track a desired trajectory in $SE(3)$. The robots do not know the mass or friction properties of the object, or where they are attached to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Preston Culbertson , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Mac Schwager

With the rapid development of embodied intelligence, locomotion control of quadruped robots on complex terrains has become a research hotspot. Unlike traditional locomotion control approaches focusing solely on velocity tracking, we pursue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiangyu Miao , Jun Sun , Hang Lai , Xinpeng Di , Jiahang Cao , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

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