Bridging evolutionary algorithms and reinforcement learning: A comprehensive survey on hybrid algorithms

P Li, J Hao, H Tang, X Fu, Y Zhen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (ERL), which integrates Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)
and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable …

Preco: Enhancing generalization in co-design of modular soft robots via brain-body pre-training

Y Wang, S Wu, T Zhang, Y Chang… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Brain-body co-design, which involves the collaborative design of control strategies and
morphologies, has emerged as a promising approach to enhance a robot's adaptability to its …

Mining negative samples on contrastive learning via curricular weighting strategy

J Zhuang, XY **g, X Jia - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Contrastive learning, which pulls positive pairs closer and pushes away negative pairs, has
remarkably propelled the development of self-supervised representation learning. Previous …

Dittogym: Learning to control soft shape-shifting robots

S Huang, B Chen, H Xu, V Sitzmann - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.13231, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robot co-design, where the morphology of a robot is optimized jointly with a learned policy
to solve a specific task, is an emerging area of research. It holds particular promise for soft …

Reinforcement learning for freeform robot design

M Li, D Matthews, S Kriegman - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the necessity of morphological adaptation in animals, a growing body of work
has attempted to expand robot training to encompass physical aspects of a robot's design …

Leveraging hyperbolic embeddings for coarse-to-fine robot design

H Dong, J Zhang, C Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.00462, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-cellular robot design aims to create robots comprised of numerous cells that can be
efficiently controlled to perform diverse tasks. Previous research has demonstrated the …

Evolving generalist controllers to handle a wide range of morphological variations

C Triebold, A Yaman - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Neuro-evolutionary methods have proven effective in addressing a wide range of tasks.
However, the study of the robustness and generalizability of evolved artificial neural …

Effective Design and Interpretation in Voxel-Based Soft Robotics: A Part Assembly Approach with Bayesian Optimization

T Saito, M Oka - Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 36, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
In this study, we introduce an innovative approach to enhance interpretability in the design
optimization of voxel-based soft robots (VSRs). VSRs present a unique challenge in …

SDRS: Shape-Differentiable Robot Simulator

X Ye, X Gao, K Wu, Z Pan, T Komura - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.19127, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robot simulators are indispensable tools across many fields, and recent research has
significantly improved their functionality by incorporating additional gradient information …

Analysis of Limitations on the Design of a Small-Dimensional Robot for Investigating Damage to Panel Buildings

I Karpenko - 2024 - openarchive.nure.ua
Анотація The article analyzes the design limitations of a compact robot designed to
investigate damage to panel houses. The requirements for size, maneuverability, energy …