Squirl: Robust and efficient learning from video demonstration of long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks

B Wu, F Xu, Z He, A Gupta… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated its potential to
learn complex robotic manipulation tasks. However, RL still requires the robot to collect a …

Dynamics learning with object-centric interaction networks for robot manipulation

J Wang, C Hu, Y Wang, Y Zhu - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the physical interactions of objects with environments is critical for multi-
object robotic manipulation tasks. A predictive dynamics model can predict the future states …

Alan: Autonomously exploring robotic agents in the real world

R Mendonca, S Bahl, D Pathak - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic agents that operate autonomously in the real world need to continuously explore
their environment and learn from the data collected, with minimal human supervision. While …

Furniturebench: Reproducible real-world benchmark for long-horizon complex manipulation

M Heo, Y Lee, D Lee, JJ Lim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12821, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL), imitation learning (IL), and task and motion planning (TAMP)
have demonstrated impressive performance across various robotic manipulation tasks …

Roboturk: A crowdsourcing platform for robotic skill learning through imitation

A Mandlekar, Y Zhu, A Garg, J Booher… - … on Robot Learning, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Imitation Learning has empowered recent advances in learning robotic manipulation tasks
by addressing shortcomings of Reinforcement Learning such as exploration and reward …

Batch exploration with examples for scalable robotic reinforcement learning

AS Chen, HJ Nam, S Nair, C Finn - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning from diverse offline datasets is a promising path towards learning general purpose
robotic agents. However, a core challenge in this paradigm lies in collecting large amounts …

Rb2: Robotic manipulation benchmarking with a twist

S Dasari, J Wang, J Hong, S Bahl, Y Lin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Benchmarks offer a scientific way to compare algorithms using objective performance
metrics. Good benchmarks have two features:(a) they should be widely useful for many …

Orbit: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments

M Mittal, C Yu, Q Yu, J Liu, N Rudin… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present Orbit, a unified and modular framework for robot learning powered by Nvidia
Isaac Sim. It offers a modular design to easily and efficiently create robotic environments …

Deep rl at scale: Sorting waste in office buildings with a fleet of mobile manipulators

A Herzog, K Rao, K Hausman, Y Lu, P Wohlhart… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We describe a system for deep reinforcement learning of robotic manipulation skills applied
to a large-scale real-world task: sorting recyclables and trash in office buildings. Real-world …

Real robot challenge 2022: Learning dexterous manipulation from offline data in the real world

N Gürtler, F Widmaier, C Sancaktar… - NeurIPS 2022 …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Experimentation on real robots is demanding in terms of time and costs. For this reason, a
large part of the reinforcement learning (RL) community uses simulators to develop and …