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This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song

Sudden changes in the dynamics of robotic tasks, such as contact with an object or the latching of a door, are often viewed as inconvenient discontinuities that make manipulation difficult. However, when these transitions are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ajinkya Jain , Scott Niekum

We present an algorithm that produces a plan for relocating obstacles in order to grasp a target in clutter by a robotic manipulator without collisions. We consider configurations where objects are densely populated in a constrained and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Jinhwi Lee , Younggil Cho , Changjoo Nam , Jonghyeon Park , Changhwan Kim

Humanoid robots hold great promise for operating in human-centric environments, yet achieving robust whole-body coordination across the head, hands, and legs remains a major challenge. We present a system that combines a modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haozhi Qi , Yen-Jen Wang , Toru Lin , Brent Yi , Yi Ma , Koushil Sreenath , Jitendra Malik

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep neural networks, typically suggesting that increasing model…

In recent years, the robotics community has made substantial progress in robotic manipulation using deep reinforcement learning (RL). Effectively learning of long-horizon tasks remains a challenging topic. Typical RL-based methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Zhihao Li , Zhenglong Sun , Jionglong SU , Jiaming Zhang

Complex object manipulation tasks often span over long sequences of operations. Task planning over long-time horizons is a challenging and open problem in robotics, and its complexity grows exponentially with an increasing number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sören Pirk , Karol Hausman , Alexander Toshev , Mohi Khansari

We propose a novel diffusion-based action model for robotic motion planning. Commonly, established numerical planning approaches are used to solve general motion planning problems, but have significant runtime requirements. By leveraging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Lennart Clasmeier , Jan-Gerrit Habekost , Connor Gäde , Philipp Allgeuer , Stefan Wermter

In this paper, we focus on the problem of task allocation, cooperative path planning and motion coordination of the large-scale system with thousands of robots, aiming for practical applications in robotic warehouses and automated logistics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Shunbo Zhou , Yi Shen , Yun-Hui Liu

Fabrication uncertainty arising from tolerance accumulation, material imperfection, and positioning errors remains a critical barrier to automated robotic assembly in construction, particularly for contact-rich manipulation tasks governed…

Legged robots have the potential to leverage obstacles to climb steep sand slopes. However, efficiently repositioning these obstacles to desired locations is challenging. Here we present DiffusiveGRAIN, a learning-based method that enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haodi Hu , Yue Wu , Feifei Qian , Daniel Seita

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Long-horizon routing tasks of deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as cables and ropes, are common in industrial assembly lines and everyday life. These tasks are particularly challenging because they require robots to manipulate DLO with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mingen Li , Houjian Yu , Yixuan Huang , Youngjin Hong , Hantao Ye , Changhyun Choi

The conditional diffusion model has been demonstrated as an efficient tool for learning robot policies, owing to its advancement to accurately model the conditional distribution of policies. The intricate nature of real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Huanyu Yang , Junrui Zhang , Yifan Duan , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Diffusion-based robot navigation policies trained on large-scale imitation learning datasets, can generate multi-modal trajectories directly from the robot's visual observations, bypassing the traditional localization-mapping-planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Junhe Sheng , Ruofei Bai , Kuan Xu , Ruimeng Liu , Jie Chen , Shenghai Yuan , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie

Learning complex manipulation tasks in realistic, obstructed environments is a challenging problem due to hard exploration in the presence of obstacles and high-dimensional visual observations. Prior work tackles the exploration problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 I-Chun Arthur Liu , Shagun Uppal , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Joseph J. Lim , Peter Englert , Youngwoon Lee

A particular type of assistive robots designed for physical interaction with objects could play an important role assisting with mobility and fall prevention in healthcare facilities. Autonomous mobile manipulation presents a hurdle prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Roya Sabbagh Novin , Amir Yazdani , Andrew Merryweather , Tucker Hermans

Recent advances in motion planning for autonomous driving have led to models capable of generating high-quality trajectories. However, most existing planners tend to fix their policy after supervised training, leading to consistent but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Fan Ding , Xuewen Luo , Hwa Hui Tew , Ruturaj Reddy , Xikun Wang , Junn Yong Loo

Balancing passenger demand and vehicle availability is crucial for ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of urban transportation systems. To address this challenge, we propose a novel hierarchical strategy for the efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Pengbo Zhu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Nikolas Geroliminis

Classical methods in robot motion planning, such as sampling-based and optimization-based methods, often struggle with scalability towards higher-dimensional state spaces and complex environments. Diffusion models, known for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Edward Sandra , Lander Vanroye , Dries Dirckx , Ruben Cartuyvels , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré