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 …

A review of physics simulators for robotic applications

J Collins, S Chand, A Vanderkop, D Howard - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of simulators in robotics research is widespread, underpinning the majority of recent
advances in the field. There are now more options available to researchers than ever before …

Navigating to objects in the real world

T Gervet, S Chintala, D Batra, J Malik, DS Chaplot - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Semantic navigation is necessary to deploy mobile robots in uncontrolled environments
such as homes or hospitals. Many learning-based approaches have been proposed in …

A survey on learning-based robotic gras**

K Kleeberger, R Bormann, W Kraus, MF Huber - Current Robotics Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review provides a comprehensive overview of machine
learning approaches for vision-based robotic gras** and manipulation. Current trends and …

Scalable deep reinforcement learning for vision-based robotic manipulation

D Kalashnikov, A Irpan, P Pastor… - … on robot learning, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we study the problem of learning vision-based dynamic manipulation skills
using a scalable reinforcement learning approach. We study this problem in the context of …

Rlbench: The robot learning benchmark & learning environment

S James, Z Ma, DR Arrojo… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a challenging new benchmark and learning-environment for robot learning:
RLBench. The benchmark features 100 completely unique, hand-designed tasks, ranging in …

Learning ambidextrous robot gras** policies

J Mahler, M Matl, V Satish, M Danielczuk, B DeRose… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Universal picking (UP), or reliable robot gras** of a diverse range of novel objects from
heaps, is a grand challenge for e-commerce order fulfillment, manufacturing, inspection, and …

Sim-to-real via sim-to-sim: Data-efficient robotic gras** via randomized-to-canonical adaptation networks

S James, P Wohlhart, M Kalakrishnan… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Real world data, especially in the domain of robotics, is notoriously costly to collect. One way
to circumvent this can be to leverage the power of simulation to produce large amounts of …

Learning robust, real-time, reactive robotic gras**

D Morrison, P Corke, J Leitner - The International journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a novel approach to perform object-independent grasp synthesis from depth
images via deep neural networks. Our generative gras** convolutional neural network …

Tossingbot: Learning to throw arbitrary objects with residual physics

A Zeng, S Song, J Lee, A Rodriguez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate whether a robot arm can learn to pick and throw arbitrary rigid objects into
selected boxes quickly and accurately. Throwing has the potential to increase the physical …