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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review on reinforcement learning for contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks

Í Elguea-Aguinaco, A Serrano-Muñoz… - Robotics and Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research and application of reinforcement learning in robotics for contact-rich manipulation
tasks have exploded in recent years. Its ability to cope with unstructured environments and …

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 …

Design and experimental validation of deep reinforcement learning-based fast trajectory planning and control for mobile robot in unknown environment

R Chai, H Niu, J Carrasco, F Arvin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the problem of planning optimal maneuver trajectories and
guiding the mobile robot toward target positions in uncertain environments for exploration …

Behavior: Benchmark for everyday household activities in virtual, interactive, and ecological environments

S Srivastava, C Li, M Lingelbach… - … on robot learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We introduce BEHAVIOR, a benchmark for embodied AI with 100 activities in simulation,
spanning a range of everyday household chores such as cleaning, maintenance, and food …

Why generalization in rl is difficult: Epistemic pomdps and implicit partial observability

D Ghosh, J Rahme, A Kumar, A Zhang… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Generalization is a central challenge for the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL)
systems in the real world. In this paper, we show that the sequential structure of the RL …

igibson 1.0: A simulation environment for interactive tasks in large realistic scenes

B Shen, F **a, C Li, R Martín-Martín… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present iGibson 1.0, a novel simulation environment to develop robotic solutions for
interactive tasks in large-scale realistic scenes. Our environment contains 15 fully interactive …

Interactive gibson benchmark: A benchmark for interactive navigation in cluttered environments

F **a, WB Shen, C Li, P Kasimbeg… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present Interactive Gibson Benchmark, the first comprehensive benchmark for training
and evaluating Interactive Navigation solutions. Interactive Navigation tasks are robot …

The ingredients of real-world robotic reinforcement learning

H Zhu, J Yu, A Gupta, D Shah, K Hartikainen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The success of reinforcement learning for real world robotics has been, in many cases
limited to instrumented laboratory scenarios, often requiring arduous human effort and …

Combining optimal control and learning for visual navigation in novel environments

S Bansal, V Tolani, S Gupta, J Malik… - Conference on Robot …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Model-based control is a popular paradigm for robot navigation because it can
leverage a known dynamics model to efficiently plan robust robot trajectories. However, it is …