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Transfer learning has the potential to reduce the burden of data collection and to decrease the unavoidable risks of the training phase. In this letter, we introduce a multirobot, multitask transfer learning framework that allows a system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Karime Pereida , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) and model-free reinforcement learning (MFRL) evolve along distinct paths but converge in the design of Dyna-Q [1]. However, modern RL methods still struggle with effective transferability across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Quanxi Zhou , Wencan Mao , Manabu Tsukada , John C. S. Lui , Yusheng Ji

Reinforcement learning has demonstrated significant potential in the field of autonomous driving. However, it suffers from defects such as training instability and unsafe action outputs when faced with autonomous racing environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bo Leng , Weiqi Zhang , Zhuoren Li , Lu Xiong , Guizhe Jin , Ran Yu , Chen Lv

Humanoid robots that can autonomously operate in diverse environments have the potential to help address labour shortages in factories, assist elderly at homes, and colonize new planets. While classical controllers for humanoid robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Bike Zhang , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Koushil Sreenath

Overactuated tilt-rotor platforms offer many advantages over traditional fixed-arm drones, allowing the decoupling of the applied force from the attitude of the robot. This expands their application areas to aerial interaction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Eugenio Cuniato , Olov Andersson , Helen Oleynikova , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

A significant challenge for the control of a robotic lower extremity rehabilitation exoskeleton is to ensure stability and robustness during programmed tasks or motions, which is crucial for the safety of the mobility-impaired user. Due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 S. Luo , G. Androwis , S. Adamovich , H. Su , X. Zhou

In the context of legged robots, adaptive behavior involves adaptive balancing and adaptive swing foot reflection. While adaptive balancing counteracts perturbations to the robot, adaptive swing foot reflection helps the robot to navigate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yiyu Chen , Quan Nguyen

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

We propose a method for incorporating object interaction and human body dynamics into the task of 3D ego-pose estimation using a head-mounted camera. We use a kinematics model of the human body to represent the entire range of human motion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhengyi Luo , Ryo Hachiuma , Ye Yuan , Shun Iwase , Kris M. Kitani

This work presents a meta-reinforcement learning approach to develop a universal locomotion control policy capable of zero-shot generalization across diverse quadrupedal platforms. The proposed method trains an RL agent equipped with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Fabrizio Di Giuro , Jin Cheng , Dongho Kang , Bhavya Sukhija , Stelian Coros

Multi-camera tracking plays a pivotal role in various real-world applications. While end-to-end methods have gained significant interest in single-camera tracking, multi-camera tracking remains predominantly reliant on heuristic techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Deep Patel , Iain Melvin

Quadrupedal robots are increasingly deployed for load-carrying tasks across diverse terrains. While Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based methods can account for payload variations, they often depend on predefined gait schedules or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Vamshi Kumar Kurva , Shishir Kolathaya

This work explores techniques to scale up image-based end-to-end learning for dexterous grasping with an arm + hand system. Unlike state-based RL, vision-based RL is much more memory inefficient, resulting in relatively low batch sizes,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ritvik Singh , Karl Van Wyk , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik , Nathan Ratliff , Ankur Handa

Wheel-legged robots with integrated manipulators hold great promise for mobile manipulation in logistics, industrial automation, and human-robot collaboration. However, unified control of such systems remains challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zong Chen , Shaoyang Li , Ben Liu , Min Li , Zhouping Yin , Yiqun Li

Humanoid whole-body loco-manipulation promises transformative capabilities for daily service and warehouse tasks. While recent advances in general motion tracking (GMT) have enabled humanoids to reproduce diverse human motions, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Siheng Zhao , Yanjie Ze , Yue Wang , C. Karen Liu , Pieter Abbeel , Guanya Shi , Rocky Duan

This paper demonstrates the single-shot learning capabilities of retrospective cost optimization based data-driven control applied to learning multirotor controller gains for trajectory tracking. In particular, the proposed control approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mohammad Mirtaba , Parham Oveissi , Juan Augusto Paredes Salaza , Ankit Goel

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

Generating robot motion that fulfills multiple tasks simultaneously is challenging due to the geometric constraints imposed by the robot. In this paper, we propose to solve multi-task problems through learning structured policies from human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 M. Asif Rana , Anqi Li , Dieter Fox , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Humanoid robots, capable of assuming human roles in various workplaces, have become essential to embodied intelligence. However, as robots with complex physical structures, learning a control model that can operate robustly across diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sixu Lin , Guanren Qiao , Yunxin Tai , Ang Li , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) of contact-rich manipulation tasks has yielded impressive results in recent years. While many studies in RL focus on varying the observation space or reward model, few efforts focused on the choice of action…