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Recent advances in robot learning have enabled robots to become increasingly better at mastering a predefined set of tasks. On the other hand, as humans, we have the ability to learn a growing set of tasks over our lifetime. Continual robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Muhammad Burhan Hafez , Stefan Wermter

Designing control policies for legged locomotion is complex due to the under-actuated and non-continuous robot dynamics. Model-free reinforcement learning provides promising tools to tackle this challenge. However, a major bottleneck of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tsung-Yen Yang , Tingnan Zhang , Linda Luu , Sehoon Ha , Jie Tan , Wenhao Yu

Control policy learning for modular robot locomotion has previously been limited to proprioceptive feedback and flat terrain. This paper develops policies for modular systems with vision traversing more challenging environments. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Julian Whitman , Howie Choset

Controlling robotic manipulators with high-dimensional action spaces for dexterous tasks is a challenging problem. Inspired by human manipulation, researchers have studied generating and using postural synergies for robot hands to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Zhanpeng He , Matei Ciocarlie

We present a novel solution to the problem of simulation-to-real transfer, which builds on recent advances in robot skill decomposition. Rather than focusing on minimizing the simulation-reality gap, we learn a set of diverse policies that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Ryan Julian , Eric Heiden , Zhanpeng He , Hejia Zhang , Stefan Schaal , Joseph J. Lim , Gaurav Sukhatme , Karol Hausman

The field of robotics has made significant advances towards generalist robot manipulation policies. However, real-world evaluation of such policies is not scalable and faces reproducibility challenges, which are likely to worsen as policies…

Recent years have witnessed impressive robotic manipulation systems driven by advances in imitation learning and generative modeling, such as diffusion- and flow-based approaches. As robot policy performance increases, so does the…

Many modern robotic systems such as multi-robot systems and manipulators exhibit redundancy, a property owing to which they are capable of executing multiple tasks. This work proposes a novel method, based on the Reinforcement Learning (RL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sheikh A. Tahmid , Gennaro Notomista

We consider the problem of reinforcement learning when provided with (1) a baseline control policy and (2) a set of constraints that the learner must satisfy. The baseline policy can arise from demonstration data or a teacher agent and may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tsung-Yen Yang , Justinian Rosca , Karthik Narasimhan , Peter J. Ramadge

Robots are still limited to controlled conditions, that the robot designer knows with enough details to endow the robot with the appropriate models or behaviors. Learning algorithms add some flexibility with the ability to discover the…

Multi-step dexterous manipulation is a fundamental skill in household scenarios, yet remains an underexplored area in robotics. This paper proposes a modular approach, where each step of the manipulation process is addressed with dedicated…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable capability in acquiring robot skills, but learning each new skill still requires substantial data collection for training. The pretrain-and-finetune paradigm offers a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ziang Zheng , Guojian Zhan , Bin Shuai , Shengtao Qin , Jiangtao Li , Tao Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li

In recent years, the Robotics field has initiated several efforts toward building generalist robot policies through large-scale multi-task Behavior Cloning. However, direct deployments of these policies have led to unsatisfactory…

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex tasks such as mathematics and coding. However, these models frequently exhibit a phenomenon known as overthinking during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yao Huang , Huanran Chen , Shouwei Ruan , Yichi Zhang , Xingxing Wei , Yinpeng Dong

Fine-tuning multi-turn dialogue systems requires high-quality supervision but often suffers from degraded performance when exposed to low-quality data. Supervision errors in early turns can propagate across subsequent turns, undermining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yiming Du , Yifan Xiang , Bin Liang , Dahua Lin , Kam-Fai Wong , Fei Tan

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

Learning robot skills from scratch is often time-consuming, while reusing data promotes sustainability and improves sample efficiency. This study investigates policy transfer across different robotic platforms, focusing on peg-in-hole task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Khalil Abuibaid , Vinit Hegiste , Nigora Gafur , Achim Wagner , Martin Ruskowski

Robots should be able to learn complex behaviors from human demonstrations. In practice, these human-provided datasets are inevitably imbalanced: i.e., the human demonstrates some subtasks more frequently than others. State-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sagar Parekh , Heramb Nemlekar , Dylan P. Losey

Cross-platform robot control remains difficult because hardware interfaces, data formats, and control paradigms vary widely, which fragments toolchains and slows deployment. To address this, we present Control Your Robot, a modular,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tian Nian , Weijie Ke , Shaolong Zhu , Bingshan Hu

Generalist robot manipulation policies (GMPs) have the potential to generalize across a wide range of tasks, devices, and environments. However, existing policies continue to struggle with out-of-distribution scenarios due to the inherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Wenbo Zhang , Yang Li , Yanyuan Qiao , Siyuan Huang , Jiajun Liu , Feras Dayoub , Xiao Ma , Lingqiao Liu