Safe learning in robotics: From learning-based control to safe reinforcement learning

L Brunke, M Greeff, AW Hall, Z Yuan… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The last half decade has seen a steep rise in the number of contributions on safe learning
methods for real-world robotic deployments from both the control and reinforcement learning …

Crossing the reality gap: A survey on sim-to-real transferability of robot controllers in reinforcement learning

E Salvato, G Fenu, E Medvet, FA Pellegrino - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing demand for robots able to act autonomously in complex scenarios has widely
accelerated the introduction of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robots control applications …

Optimization-based control for dynamic legged robots

PM Wensing, M Posa, Y Hu, A Escande… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a world designed for legs, quadrupeds, bipeds, and humanoids have the opportunity to
impact emerging robotics applications from logistics, to agriculture, to home assistance. The …

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 …

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 …

Policy search for model predictive control with application to agile drone flight

Y Song, D Scaramuzza - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Policy search and model predictive control (MPC) are two different paradigms for robot
control: policy search has the strength of automatically learning complex policies using …

Variable impedance control and learning—a review

FJ Abu-Dakka, M Saveriano - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Robots that physically interact with their surroundings, in order to accomplish some tasks or
assist humans in their activities, require to exploit contact forces in a safe and proficient …

Review of deep reinforcement learning-based object grasping: Techniques, open challenges, and recommendations

MQ Mohammed, KL Chung, CS Chyi - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The motivation behind our work is to review and analyze the most relevant studies on deep
reinforcement learning-based object manipulation. Various studies are examined through a …

A review on manipulation skill acquisition through teleoperation‐based learning from demonstration

W Si, N Wang, C Yang - Cognitive Computation and Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulation skill learning and generalisation have gained increasing attention due to the
wide applications of robot manipulators and the spurt of robot learning techniques …

Skill transfer learning for autonomous robots and human–robot cooperation: A survey

Y Liu, Z Li, H Liu, Z Kan - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Designing a robot system with reasoning and learning ability has gradually become a
research focus in robotics research field. Recently, Skill Transfer Learning (STL), ie, the …