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 …

Deep reinforcement learning for robotics: A survey of real-world successes

C Tang, B Abbatematteo, J Hu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly its combination with deep neural networks,
referred to as deep RL (DRL), has shown tremendous promise across a wide range of …

Smart industrial robot control trends, challenges and opportunities within manufacturing

J Arents, M Greitans - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industrial robots and associated control methods are continuously developing. With the
recent progress in the field of artificial intelligence, new perspectives in industrial robot …

Reinforcement learning for robust parameterized locomotion control of bipedal robots

Z Li, X Cheng, XB Peng, P Abbeel… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing robust walking controllers for bipedal robots is a challenging endeavor.
Traditional model-based locomotion controllers require simplifying assumptions and careful …

Off-policy deep reinforcement learning without exploration

S Fujimoto, D Meger, D Precup - … conference on machine …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many practical applications of reinforcement learning constrain agents to learn from a fixed
batch of data which has already been gathered, without offering further possibility for data …

[HTML][HTML] A review on reinforcement learning for contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks

Í Elguea-Aguinaco, A Serrano-Muñoz… - Robotics and Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research and application of reinforcement learning in robotics for contact-rich manipulation
tasks have exploded in recent years. Its ability to cope with unstructured environments and …

Softgym: Benchmarking deep reinforcement learning for deformable object manipulation

X Lin, Y Wang, J Olkin, D Held - Conference on Robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Manipulating deformable objects has long been a challenge in robotics due to its high
dimensional state representation and complex dynamics. Recent success in deep …

Human-to-robot imitation in the wild

S Bahl, A Gupta, D Pathak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09450, 2022 - arxiv.org
We approach the problem of learning by watching humans in the wild. While traditional
approaches in Imitation and Reinforcement Learning are promising for learning in the real …

Experimental quantum speed-up in reinforcement learning agents

V Saggio, BE Asenbeck, A Hamann, T Strömberg… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
As the field of artificial intelligence advances, the demand for algorithms that can learn
quickly and efficiently increases. An important paradigm within artificial intelligence is …

Tossingbot: Learning to throw arbitrary objects with residual physics

A Zeng, S Song, J Lee, A Rodriguez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate whether a robot arm can learn to pick and throw arbitrary rigid objects into
selected boxes quickly and accurately. Throwing has the potential to increase the physical …