Reinforcement learning for robot research: A comprehensive review and open issues

T Zhang, H Mo - International Journal of Advanced Robotic …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Applying the learning mechanism of natural living beings to endow intelligent robots with
humanoid perception and decision-making wisdom becomes an important force to promote …

Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey

X Xiao, B Liu, G Warnell, P Stone - Autonomous Robots, 2022 - Springer
Moving in complex environments is an essential capability of intelligent mobile robots.
Decades of research and engineering have been dedicated to developing sophisticated …

A rugd dataset for autonomous navigation and visual perception in unstructured outdoor environments

M Wigness, S Eum, JG Rogers, D Han… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research in autonomous driving has benefited from a number of visual datasets collected
from mobile platforms, leading to improved visual perception, greater scene understanding …

Learning model predictive controllers with real-time attention for real-world navigation

X Xiao, T Zhang, K Choromanski, E Lee… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Despite decades of research, existing navigation systems still face real-world challenges
when deployed in the wild, eg, in cluttered home environments or in human-occupied public …

Learning inverse kinodynamics for accurate high-speed off-road navigation on unstructured terrain

X Xiao, J Biswas, P Stone - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a learning-based approach to consider the effect of unobservable world
states in kinodynamic motion planning in order to enable accurate high-speed off-road …

Appld: Adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration

X Xiao, B Liu, G Warnell, J Fink… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing autonomous robot navigation systems allow robots to move from one point to
another in a collision-free manner. However, when facing new environments, these systems …

Apple: Adaptive planner parameter learning from evaluative feedback

Z Wang, X Xiao, G Warnell… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classical autonomous navigation systems can control robots in a collision-free manner,
oftentimes with verifiable safety and explainability. When facing new environments …

Toward agile maneuvers in highly constrained spaces: Learning from hallucination

X Xiao, B Liu, G Warnell, P Stone - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While classical approaches to autonomous robot navigation currently enable operation in
certain environments, they break down in tightly constrained spaces, eg, where the robot …

Learning risk-aware costmaps via inverse reinforcement learning for off-road navigation

S Triest, MG Castro, P Maheshwari… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The process of designing costmaps for off-road driving tasks is often a challenging and
engineering-intensive task. Recent work in costmap design for off-road driving focuses on …

Learning to model and plan for wheeled mobility on vertically challenging terrain

A Datar, C Pan, X Xiao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11611, 2023 - arxiv.org
Most autonomous navigation systems assume wheeled robots are rigid bodies and their 2D
planar workspaces can be divided into free spaces and obstacles. However, recent wheeled …