Benchmarking reinforcement learning algorithms on real-world robots

AR Mahmood, D Korenkevych… - … on robot learning, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
… the basic robot setup. On these tasks, we compare and benchmark four reinforcement learning
algorithms for continuous control: TRPO, PPO, DDPG, and Soft Q-learning (Haarnoja et al…

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning in robotics: Applications and real-world challenges

P Kormushev, S Calinon, DG Caldwell - Robotics, 2013 - mdpi.com
… This paper provides a summary of some of the main components for applying reinforcement
learning in robotics. We present some of the most important classes of learning algorithms

The ingredients of real-world robotic reinforcement learning

H Zhu, J Yu, A Gupta, D Shah, K Hartikainen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… reward functions from easily available supervision, and learn … can learn dexterous robotic
manipulation tasks in the real world, … an algorithm that allows for fully automated reinforcement

A survey on reproducibility by evaluating deep reinforcement learning algorithms on real-world robots

NA Lynnerup, L Nolling, R Hasle… - … on Robot Learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
… interact with the real world through Universal Robots (UR)’ 6 DoF robotic manipulators [8]. …
evaluation of common RL baseline algorithms on real-world robots; and our suggestions on …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning: definitions, benchmarks and analysis

G Dulac-Arnold, N Levine, DJ Mankowitz, J Li… - Machine Learning, 2021 - Springer
… , test their learning algorithms on … learning with multiple real-world robots to achieve better
sample efficiency and generalization performance on a door opening task using four robots

Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning

G Dulac-Arnold, D Mankowitz, T Hester - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12901, 2019 - arxiv.org
algorithm that addresses all of these challenges would be applicable to a vast number of real
world … a list of challenges for real world RL, but specifically for RL on robots. They present …

How to train your robot with deep reinforcement learning: lessons we have learned

J Ibarz, J Tan, C Finn, M Kalakrishnan… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
machine learning researchers who are interested in furthering the progress of deep RL in
the real world. … significant improvements have been made in our learning algorithms. Offline …

Sim-to-real transfer in deep reinforcement learning for robotics: a survey

W Zhao, JP Queralta… - 2020 IEEE symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have been … simulated worlds has been limited.
An exception to this is, … data or speed up the learning on realworld robots [61]. Sometimes …

Real-world human-robot collaborative reinforcement learning

A Shafti, J Tjomsland, W Dudley… - … on Intelligent Robots …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the agent learns via real-time qualitative feedback from a human advisor rather than
environment reward, outperforming both humans and state-of-the-art RL algorithms in ATARI Bowl…

Emergent real-world robotic skills via unsupervised off-policy reinforcement learning

A Sharma, M Ahn, S Levine, V Kumar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… unsupervised skill discovery algorithm can be … reinforcement learning in the real world.
Firstly, we show that our proposed algorithm provides substantial improvement in learning