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 …

Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives

S Ha, J Lee, M van de Panne, Z **e… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Legged locomotion holds the premise of universal mobility, a critical capability for many real-
world robotic applications. Both model-based and learning-based approaches have …

Robot parkour learning

Z Zhuang, Z Fu, J Wang, C Atkeson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Parkour is a grand challenge for legged locomotion that requires robots to overcome various
obstacles rapidly in complex environments. Existing methods can generate either diverse …

Robogen: Towards unleashing infinite data for automated robot learning via generative simulation

Y Wang, Z **an, F Chen, TH Wang, Y Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present RoboGen, a generative robotic agent that automatically learns diverse robotic
skills at scale via generative simulation. RoboGen leverages the latest advancements in …

Learning vision-based bipedal locomotion for challenging terrain

H Duan, B Pandit, MS Gadde… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) for bipedal locomotion has recently demonstrated robust gaits
over moderate terrains using only proprioceptive sensing. However, such blind controllers …

Commonsense reasoning for legged robot adaptation with vision-language models

AS Chen, AM Lessing, A Tang, G Chada… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Legged robots are physically capable of navigating a diverse variety of environments and
overcoming a wide range of obstructions. For example, in a search and rescue mission, a …

Whole-body humanoid robot locomotion with human reference

Q Zhang, P Cui, D Yan, J Sun, Y Duan… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, humanoid robots have made significant advances in their ability to perform
challenging tasks due to the deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL), however, the …

Grow your limits: Continuous improvement with real-world rl for robotic locomotion

L Smith, Y Cao, S Levine - 2024 IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning can enable robots to autonomously acquire complex behaviors
such as legged locomotion. However, RL in the real world is complicated by constraints on …

Berkeley humanoid: A research platform for learning-based control

Q Liao, B Zhang, X Huang, X Huang, Z Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce Berkeley Humanoid, a reliable and low-cost mid-scale humanoid research
platform for learning-based control. Our lightweight, in-house-built robot is designed …

A generalist dynamics model for control

I Schubert, J Zhang, J Bruce, S Bechtle… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate the use of transformer sequence models as dynamics models (TDMs) for
control. We find that TDMs exhibit strong generalization capabilities to unseen …