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 …

Sim-to-real transfer in deep reinforcement learning for robotics: a survey

W Zhao, JP Queralta… - 2020 IEEE symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning has recently seen huge success across multiple areas in the
robotics domain. Owing to the limitations of gathering real-world data, ie, sample inefficiency …

Diffusion-based generation, optimization, and planning in 3d scenes

S Huang, Z Wang, P Li, B Jia, T Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce SceneDiffuser, a conditional generative model for 3D scene understanding.
SceneDiffuser provides a unified model for solving scene-conditioned generation …

Where are we in the search for an artificial visual cortex for embodied intelligence?

A Majumdar, K Yadav, S Arnaud, J Ma… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present the largest and most comprehensive empirical study of pre-trained visual
representations (PVRs) or visual 'foundation models' for Embodied AI. First, we curate …

Affordances from human videos as a versatile representation for robotics

S Bahl, R Mendonca, L Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Building a robot that can understand and learn to interact by watching humans has inspired
several vision problems. However, despite some successful results on static datasets, it …

Q-transformer: Scalable offline reinforcement learning via autoregressive q-functions

Y Chebotar, Q Vuong, K Hausman… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this work, we present a scalable reinforcement learning method for training multi-task
policies from large offline datasets that can leverage both human demonstrations and …

Pointclip: Point cloud understanding by clip

R Zhang, Z Guo, W Zhang, K Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recently, zero-shot and few-shot learning via Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training
(CLIP) have shown inspirational performance on 2D visual recognition, which learns to …

Navigating to objects in the real world

T Gervet, S Chintala, D Batra, J Malik, DS Chaplot - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Semantic navigation is necessary to deploy mobile robots in uncontrolled environments
such as homes or hospitals. Many learning-based approaches have been proposed in …

Dsvt: Dynamic sparse voxel transformer with rotated sets

H Wang, C Shi, S Shi, M Lei, S Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Designing an efficient yet deployment-friendly 3D backbone to handle sparse point clouds is
a fundamental problem in 3D perception. Compared with the customized sparse …

Deep reinforcement learning based mobile robot navigation: A review

K Zhu, T Zhang - Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigation is a fundamental problem of mobile robots, for which Deep Reinforcement
Learning (DRL) has received significant attention because of its strong representation and …