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This paper presents a novel satellite attitude control framework that integrates Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) reinforcement learning with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) to achieve robust performance under various unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Zhizhuo Zhang , Hao Peng , Xiaoli Bai

In this paper, we present a method to control a quadrotor with a neural network trained using reinforcement learning techniques. With reinforcement learning, a common network can be trained to directly map state to actuator command making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Jemin Hwangbo , Inkyu Sa , Roland Siegwart , Marco Hutter

Tensegrity robots combine rigid rods and elastic cables, offering high resilience and deployability but at the same time posing major challenges for locomotion control due to their underactuated and highly coupled dynamics. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chi Zhang , Mingrui Li , Wenzhe Tong , Xiaonan Huang

Deep reinforcement learning can generate complex control policies, but requires large amounts of training data to work effectively. Recent work has attempted to address this issue by leveraging differentiable simulators. However, inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jie Xu , Viktor Makoviychuk , Yashraj Narang , Fabio Ramos , Wojciech Matusik , Animesh Garg , Miles Macklin

In this article, we show that learned policies can be applied to solve legged locomotion control tasks with extensive flight phases, such as those encountered in space exploration. Using an off-the-shelf deep reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Nikita Rudin , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Vassilios Tsounis , Marco Hutter

Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) demonstrate potential for enhancing the generalization of a robot, enabling it to perform multiple tasks concurrently. However, the performance of MTRL may still be susceptible to conflicts between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jinyuan Feng , Min Chen , Zhiqiang Pu , Tenghai Qiu , Jianqiang Yi

Novice pilots find it difficult to operate and land unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), due to the complex UAV dynamics, challenges in depth perception, lack of expertise with the control interface and additional disturbances from the ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kal Backman , Dana Kulić , Hoam Chung

Although acrobatic flight control has been studied extensively, one key limitation of the existing methods is that they are usually restricted to specific maneuver tasks and cannot change flight pattern parameters online. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zikang Yin , Canlun Zheng , Shiliang Guo , Zhikun Wang , Shiyu Zhao

At present, robots typically require extensive training to successfully accomplish a single task. However, to truly enhance their usefulness in real-world scenarios, robots should possess the capability to perform multiple tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ghadi Nehme , Ishan Sabane , Tejas Y. Deo

One of the main challenges in managing traffic at multilane intersections is ensuring smooth coordination between human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). This paper presents a novel traffic signal control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Manonmani Sekar , Nasim Nezamoddini

Designing a stabilizing controller for nonlinear systems is a challenging task, especially for high-dimensional problems with unknown dynamics. Traditional reinforcement learning algorithms applied to stabilization tasks tend to drive the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Thanin Quartz , Ruikun Zhou , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

State-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms predominantly learn a policy from either a numerical state vector or images. Both approaches generally do not take structural knowledge of the task into account, which is especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Marco Oliva , Soubarna Banik , Josip Josifovski , Alois Knoll

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

We present a deep reinforcement learning framework based on Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) for safe and precise maneuvering of double-Ackermann-steering mobile robots (DASMRs). Unlike holonomic or simpler non-holonomic robots such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kohio Deflesselle , Mélodie Daniel , Aly Magassouba , Miguel Aranda , Olivier Ly

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved unprecedented successes in a range of challenging problems, their applicability has been mainly limited to simulation or game domains due to the high sample complexity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Siyi Li , Tianbo Liu , Chi Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Shaojie Shen

Learning various motor skills for quadrupedal robots is a challenging problem that requires careful design of task-specific mathematical models or reward descriptions. In this work, we propose to learn a single capable policy using deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Arnaud Klipfel , Nitish Sontakke , Ren Liu , Sehoon Ha

Agile control of mobile manipulator is challenging because of the high complexity coupled by the robotic system and the unstructured working environment. Tracking and grasping a dynamic object with a random trajectory is even harder. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Cong Wang , Qifeng Zhang , Qiyan Tian , Shuo Li , Xiaohui Wang , David Lane , Yvan Petillot , Ziyang Hong , Sen Wang

We propose a deep reinforcement learning approach for solving a mapless navigation problem in warehouse scenarios. In our approach, an automation guided vehicle is equipped with LiDAR and frontal RGB sensors and learns to perform a targeted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Honghu Xue , Benedikt Hein , Mohamed Bakr , Georg Schildbach , Bengt Abel , Elmar Rueckert

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have attracted more and more attention recently. The fast actuation time allows them having the potential to promote the efficiency and safety of the whole transportation system. Due to technical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Tianyu Shi , Jiawei Wang , Yuankai Wu , Luis Miranda-Moreno , Lijun Sun

Visual reinforcement learning is appealing for robotics but expensive -- off-policy methods are sample-efficient yet slow; on-policy methods parallelize well but waste samples. Recent work has shown that off-policy methods can train faster…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Henrik I. Christensen