Towards hierarchical task decomposition using deep reinforcement learning for pick and place subtasks

L Marzari, A Pore, D Dall'Alba… - 2021 20th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is emerging as a promising approach to generate
adaptive behaviors for robotic platforms. However, a major drawback of using DRL is the …

Observation space matters: Benchmark and optimization algorithm

JT Kim, S Ha - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) enable researchers to solve
challenging control problems, from simulated environments to real-world robotic tasks …

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 …

Dexterous robotic manipulation using deep reinforcement learning and knowledge transfer for complex sparse reward‐based tasks

Q Wang, FR Sanchez, R McCarthy, DC Bulens… - Expert …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach that won Phase 1 of
the Real Robot Challenge (RRC) 2021, and then extends this method to a more difficult …

Learning with training wheels: speeding up training with a simple controller for deep reinforcement learning

L Xie, S Wang, S Rosa, A Markham… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been applied successfully to many robotic
applications. However, the large number of trials needed for training is a key issue. Most of …

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
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for autonomously
acquiring complex behaviors from low-level sensor observations. Although a large portion of …

Efficient skill acquisition for complex manipulation tasks in obstructed environments

J Yamada, J Collins, I Posner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03365, 2023 - arxiv.org
Data efficiency in robotic skill acquisition is crucial for operating robots in varied small-batch
assembly settings. To operate in such environments, robots must have robust obstacle …

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 …

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 …

Open-sourced reinforcement learning environments for surgical robotics

F Richter, RK Orosco, MC Yip - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02090, 2019 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a machine learning framework for artificially intelligent
systems to solve a variety of complex problems. Recent years has seen a surge of …