Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics

K Rana, V Dasagi, J Haviland… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We present Bayesian Controller Fusion (BCF): a hybrid control strategy that combines the
strengths of traditional hand-crafted controllers and model-free deep reinforcement learning …

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 …

Model predictive actor-critic: Accelerating robot skill acquisition with deep reinforcement learning

AS Morgan, D Nandha, G Chalvatzaki… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Substantial advancements to model-based reinforcement learning algorithms have been
impeded by the model-bias induced by the collected data, which generally hurts …

Unsupervised visual attention and invariance for reinforcement learning

X Wang, L Lian, SX Yu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The vision-based reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success. However,
generalizing vision-based RL policy to unknown test environments still remains as a …

Optlayer-practical constrained optimization for deep reinforcement learning in the real world

TH Pham, G De Magistris… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While deep reinforcement learning techniques have recently produced considerable
achievements on many decision-making problems, their use in robotics has largely been …

Sample efficient reinforcement learning via model-ensemble exploration and exploitation

Y Yao, L Xiao, Z An, W Zhang… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model-based deep reinforcement learning has achieved success in various domains that
require high sample efficiencies, such as Go and robotics. However, there are some …

Robust model-free reinforcement learning with multi-objective Bayesian optimization

M Turchetta, A Krause, S Trimpe - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In reinforcement learning (RL), an autonomous agent learns to perform complex tasks by
maximizing an exogenous reward signal while interacting with its environment. In real world …

Residual policy learning

T Silver, K Allen, J Tenenbaum, L Kaelbling - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present Residual Policy Learning (RPL): a simple method for improving
nondifferentiable policies using model-free deep reinforcement learning. RPL thrives in …

Deployment-efficient reinforcement learning via model-based offline optimization

T Matsushima, H Furuta, Y Matsuo, O Nachum… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Most reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms assume online access to the environment, in
which one may readily interleave updates to the policy with experience collection using that …

Laser: Learning a latent action space for efficient reinforcement learning

A Allshire, R Martín-Martín, C Lin… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The process of learning a manipulation task depends strongly on the action space used for
exploration: posed in the incorrect action space, solving a task with reinforcement learning …