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 …

The safety filter: A unified view of safety-critical control in autonomous systems

KC Hsu, H Hu, JF Fisac - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen significant progress in the realm of robot autonomy, accompanied
by the expanding reach of robotic technologies. However, the emergence of new …

[PDF][PDF] Vima: General robot manipulation with multimodal prompts

Y Jiang, A Gupta, Z Zhang, G Wang… - arxiv preprint …, 2022 - authors.library.caltech.edu
Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language
processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform …

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 …

Vima: Robot manipulation with multimodal prompts

Y Jiang, A Gupta, Z Zhang, G Wang, Y Dou, Y Chen… - 2023 - openreview.net
Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language
processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform …

Deep reinforcement learning based energy management strategies for electrified vehicles: Recent advances and perspectives

H He, X Meng, Y Wang, A Khajepour, X An… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrified vehicles provide an effective solution to address the unfavorable impacts of fossil
fuel use in the transportation sector. Energy management strategy (EMS) is the core …

Maximum entropy RL (provably) solves some robust RL problems

B Eysenbach, S Levine - arxiv preprint arxiv:2103.06257, 2021 - arxiv.org
Many potential applications of reinforcement learning (RL) require guarantees that the agent
will perform well in the face of disturbances to the dynamics or reward function. In this paper …

Fear-neuro-inspired reinforcement learning for safe autonomous driving

X He, J Wu, Z Huang, Z Hu, J Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring safety and achieving human-level driving performance remain challenges for
autonomous vehicles, especially in safety-critical situations. As a key component of artificial …

State-wise safe reinforcement learning: A survey

W Zhao, T He, R Chen, T Wei, C Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2302.03122, 2023 - arxiv.org
Despite the tremendous success of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms in simulation
environments, applying RL to real-world applications still faces many challenges. A major …

Accelerating surgical robotics research: A review of 10 years with the da vinci research kit

C D'Ettorre, A Mariani, A Stilli… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …