Robot reinforcement learning on the constraint manifold

P Liu, D Tateo, HB Ammar… - Conference on Robot …, 2022‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Reinforcement learning in robotics is extremely challenging due to many practical issues,
including safety, mechanical constraints, and wear and tear. Typically, these issues are not …

Fast kinodynamic planning on the constraint manifold with deep neural networks

P Kicki, P Liu, D Tateo, H Bou-Ammar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning is a mature area of research in robotics with many well-established
methods based on optimization or sampling the state space, suitable for solving kinematic …

A shared control framework for enhanced gras** performance in teleoperation

Y Zhu, B Jiang, Q Chen, T Aoyama… - IEEE Access, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote teleoperation has shown significant advancements since the first teleoperation
system was proposed by Goertz in the 1940s. In recent years, the research on shared …

Motion planning and inertia-based control for impact aware manipulation

H Khurana, A Billard - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a metric called hitting flux, which is used in the motion generation
and controls for a robot manipulator to interact with the environment through a hitting or a …

Safe reinforcement learning on the constraint manifold: Theory and applications

P Liu, H Bou-Ammar, J Peters, D Tateo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.09080, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Integrating learning-based techniques, especially reinforcement learning, into robotics is
promising for solving complex problems in unstructured environments. However, most …

Robot air hockey: A manipulation testbed for robot learning with reinforcement learning

C Chuck, C Qi, MJ Munje, S Li, M Rudolph… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning is a promising tool for learning complex policies even in fast-
moving and object-interactive domains where human teleoperation or hard-coded policies …

Bridging the gap between learning-to-plan, motion primitives and safe reinforcement learning

P Kicki, D Tateo, P Liu, J Guenster, J Peters… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Trajectory planning under kinodynamic constraints is fundamental for advanced robotics
applications that require dexterous, reactive, and rapid skills in complex environments …

A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics

P Liu, J Günster, N Funk, S Gröger… - Advances in …, 2025‏ - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Machine learning methods have a groundbreaking impact in many application
domains, but their application on real robotic platforms is still limited. Despite the many …

DroPong: Enthusing Learners About Control Engineering by Revisiting the Pong Game with Aerial and Ground Drones*

S Bertrand, C Stoica, A Thakker… - 2024 European …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an adapted version of the classic Pong game, tailored for educational
purposes and illustrated with two ground mobile robots and one drone, therefore called …

Energy-based Contact Planning under Uncertainty for Robot Air Hockey

J Jankowski, A Marić, P Liu, D Tateo, J Peters… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Planning robot contact often requires reasoning over a horizon to anticipate outcomes,
making such planning problems computationally expensive. In this letter, we propose a …