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 …

Parallel learning: Overview and perspective for computational learning across Syn2Real and Sim2Real

Q Miao, Y Lv, M Huang, X Wang… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The virtual-to-real paradigm, ie, training models on virtual data and then applying them to
solve real-world problems, has attracted more and more attention from various domains by …

Extreme parkour with legged robots

X Cheng, K Shi, A Agarwal… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans can perform parkour by traversing obstacles in a highly dynamic fashion requiring
precise eye-muscle coordination and movement. Getting robots to do the same task requires …

Legged locomotion in challenging terrains using egocentric vision

A Agarwal, A Kumar, J Malik… - Conference on robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Animals are capable of precise and agile locomotion using vision. Replicating this ability
has been a long-standing goal in robotics. The traditional approach has been to decompose …

Learning quadrupedal locomotion on deformable terrain

S Choi, G Ji, J Park, H Kim, J Mun, JH Lee… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Simulation-based reinforcement learning approaches are leading the next innovations in
legged robot control. However, the resulting control policies are still not applicable on soft …

Rma: Rapid motor adaptation for legged robots

A Kumar, Z Fu, D Pathak, J Malik - ar** robust walking controllers for bipedal robots is a challenging endeavor.
Traditional model-based locomotion controllers require simplifying assumptions and careful …

A walk in the park: Learning to walk in 20 minutes with model-free reinforcement learning

L Smith, I Kostrikov, S Levine - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.07860, 2022 - arxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning is a promising approach to learning policies in uncontrolled
environments that do not require domain knowledge. Unfortunately, due to sample …