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Diffusion models have marked a significant milestone in the enhancement of image and video generation technologies. However, generating videos that precisely retain the shape and location of moving objects such as robots remains a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Peng Wang , Zhihao Guo , Abdul Latheef Sait , Minh Huy Pham

Diffusion-based methods have been acknowledged as a powerful paradigm for end-to-end visuomotor control in robotics. Most existing approaches adopt a Diffusion Policy in U-Net architecture (DP-U), which, while effective, suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Linzhi Wu , Aoran Mei , Xiyue Wang , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan

Sequence modeling approaches have shown promising results in robot imitation learning. Recently, diffusion models have been adopted for behavioral cloning in a sequence modeling fashion, benefiting from their exceptional capabilities in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiang Li , Varun Belagali , Jinghuan Shang , Michael S. Ryoo

This paper investigates the application of Diffusion Policy in non-stationary, vision-based RL settings, specifically targeting environments where task dynamics and objectives evolve over time. Our work is grounded in practical challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gunbir Singh Baveja

Legibility of robot motion is critical in human-robot interaction, as it allows humans to quickly infer a robot's intended goal. Although traditional trajectory generation methods typically prioritize efficiency, they often fail to make the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Wenli Shi , Clemence Grislain , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

Aerial manipulators undergo rapid, configuration-dependent changes in inertial coupling forces and aerodynamic forces, making accurate dynamics modeling a core challenge for reliable control. Analytical models lose fidelity under these…

High-performance closed-loop control of truly soft continuum manipulators has remained elusive. Experimental demonstrations have largely relied on sufficiently stiff, piecewise architectures in which each actuated segment behaves as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vito Daniele Perfetta , Daniel Feliu-Talegon , Ebrahim Shahabi , Cosimo Della Santina

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently demonstrated impressive results on various generative tasks.Despite its promises, the learned representations of pre-trained DPMs, however, have not been fully understood. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion policies excel at learning complex action distributions for robotic visuomotor tasks, yet their iterative denoising process poses a major bottleneck for real-time deployment. Existing acceleration methods apply a fixed number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu-Ang Yu , Feng Gao , Yi Wu , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

Robots can acquire complex manipulation skills by learning policies from expert demonstrations, which is often known as vision-based imitation learning. Generating policies based on diffusion and flow matching models has been shown to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Qinglun Zhang , Zhen Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Guanghui Liu , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Popular reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms tend to produce a unimodal policy distribution, which weakens the expressiveness of complicated policy and decays the ability of exploration. The diffusion probability model is powerful to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Long Yang , Zhixiong Huang , Fenghao Lei , Yucun Zhong , Yiming Yang , Cong Fang , Shiting Wen , Binbin Zhou , Zhouchen Lin

Reinforcement learning shows great potential to solve complex contact-rich robot manipulation tasks. However, the safety of using RL in the real world is a crucial problem, since unexpected dangerous collisions might happen when the RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiang Zhu , Shucheng Kang , Jianyu Chen

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However, generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging, especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo

Learning to perform accurate and rich simulations of human driving behaviors from data for autonomous vehicle testing remains challenging due to human driving styles' high diversity and variance. We address this challenge by proposing a…

Legged locomotion demands controllers that are both robust and adaptable, while remaining compatible with task and safety considerations. However, model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods often yield a fixed policy that can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runhan Huang , Haldun Balim , Heng Yang , Yilun Du

Diffusion models are a class of flexible generative models trained with an approximation to the log-likelihood objective. However, most use cases of diffusion models are not concerned with likelihoods, but instead with downstream objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kevin Black , Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Ilya Kostrikov , Sergey Levine

Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at learning complex robotic tasks by effectively combining visual data with high-dimensional, multi-modal action distributions. However, diffusion models often suffer from slow inference due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Haoran Ding , Noémie Jaquier , Jan Peters , Leonel Rozo

Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data. While human demonstrations (e.g., through teleoperation) serve as the standard source for expert behaviors, acquiring such…

The control problems of complex physical systems have broad applications in science and engineering. Previous studies have shown that generative control methods based on diffusion models offer significant advantages for solving these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Long Wei , Haodong Feng , Yuchen Yang , Ruiqi Feng , Peiyan Hu , Xiang Zheng , Tao Zhang , Dixia Fan , Tailin Wu

We present a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) framework that achieves one-shot generalization in multi-stage, contact-rich manipulation tasks. Central to our approach is the utilization of environmental constraints as the inductive bias.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Li , Oliver Brock