Towards closing the sim-to-real gap in collaborative multi-robot deep reinforcement learning

W Zhao, JP Queralta, L Qingqing… - 2020 5th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current research directions in deep reinforcement learning include bridging the simulation-
reality gap, improving sample efficiency of experiences in distributed multi-agent …

Hierarchical deep reinforcement learning for multi-robot cooperation in partially observable environment

Z Liang, J Cao, W Lin, J Chen… - 2021 IEEE third …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many real-world applications require multi-robot coordination in partially-observable
domains such as package delivery, search, and rescue. One typical way to address partial …

robo-gym–an open source toolkit for distributed deep reinforcement learning on real and simulated robots

M Lucchi, F Zindler… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to complex tasks in the field of robotics has
proven to be very successful in the recent years. However, most of the publications focus …

MAMBPO: Sample-efficient multi-robot reinforcement learning using learned world models

D Willemsen, M Coppola… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot systems can benefit from reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms that learn
behaviours in a small number of trials, a property known as sample efficiency. This research …

From multi-agent to multi-robot: A scalable training and evaluation platform for multi-robot reinforcement learning

Z Liang, J Cao, S Jiang, D Saxena, J Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been gaining extensive attention from
academia and industries in the past few decades. One of the fundamental problems in …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for multi-robot applications: A survey

J Orr, A Dutta - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Deep reinforcement learning has produced many success stories in recent years. Some
example fields in which these successes have taken place include mathematics, games …

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 has recently seen huge success across multiple areas in the
robotics domain. Owing to the limitations of gathering real-world data, ie, sample inefficiency …

Passing through narrow gaps with deep reinforcement learning

B Tidd, A Cosgun, J Leitner… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The DARPA subterranean challenge requires teams of robots to traverse difficult and
diverse underground environments. Traversing small gaps is one of the challenging …

[PDF][PDF] Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning for decentralized continuous cooperative control

CS de Witt, B Peng, PA Kamienny, P Torr… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - beipeng.github.io
Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) holds the promise of automating many real-
world cooperative robotic manipulation and transportation tasks. Nevertheless …

The ingredients of real-world robotic reinforcement learning

H Zhu, J Yu, A Gupta, D Shah, K Hartikainen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The success of reinforcement learning for real world robotics has been, in many cases
limited to instrumented laboratory scenarios, often requiring arduous human effort and …