Robot learning from randomized simulations: A review

F Muratore, F Ramos, G Turk, W Yu… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rise of deep learning has caused a paradigm shift in robotics research, favoring
methods that require large amounts of data. Unfortunately, it is prohibitively expensive to …

Digital twin for human–robot collaboration in manufacturing: Review and outlook

AK Ramasubramanian, R Mathew, M Kelly… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industry 4.0, as an enabler of smart factories, focuses on flexible automation and
customization of products by utilizing technologies such as the Internet of Things and cyber …

Interventional causal representation learning

K Ahuja, D Mahajan, Y Wang… - … conference on machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Causal representation learning seeks to extract high-level latent factors from low-level
sensory data. Most existing methods rely on observational data and structural assumptions …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic assembly of timber joints using reinforcement learning

AA Apolinarska, M Pacher, H Li, N Cote… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In architectural construction, automated robotic assembly is challenging due to occurring
tolerances, small series production and complex contact situations, especially in assembly …

The role of physics-based simulators in robotics

CK Liu, D Negrut - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Physics-based simulation provides an accelerated and safe avenue for developing,
verifying, and testing robotic control algorithms and prototype designs. In the quest to …

[HTML][HTML] Offline reinforcement learning for industrial process control: A case study from steel industry

J Deng, S Sierla, J Sun, V Vyatkin - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Flatness is a crucial indicator of strip quality that presents a challenge in regulation due to
the high-speed process and the nonlinear relationship between flatness and process …

Generator identification for linear SDEs with additive and multiplicative noise

Y Wang, X Geng, W Huang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we present conditions for identifying the generator of a linear stochastic
differential equation (SDE) from the distribution of its solution process with a given fixed …

ROS-PyBullet Interface: A framework for reliable contact simulation and human-robot interaction

C Mower, T Stouraitis, J Moura… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Reliable contact simulation plays a key role in the development of (semi-) autonomous
robots, especially when dealing with contact-rich manipulation scenarios, an active robotics …

Learning to fold real garments with one arm: A case study in cloud-based robotics research

R Hoque, K Shivakumar, S Aeron… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous fabric manipulation is a longstanding challenge in robotics, but evaluating
progress is difficult due to the cost and diversity of robot hardware. Using Reach, a cloud …

Benchmarking simulated robotic manipulation through a real world dataset

J Collins, J McVicar, D Wedlock… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a benchmark to facilitate simulated manipulation; an attempt to overcome the
obstacles of physical benchmarks through the distribution of a real world, ground truth …