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Publications (8)

cs.AI2023

Privacy Preserving Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Supply Chains

Ananta Mukherjee, Peeyush Kumar, Boling Yang +2

This paper addresses privacy concerns in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), specifically within the context of supply chains where individual strategic data must remain con…

cs.AI2023

Stackelberg Games for Learning Emergent Behaviors During Competitive Autocurricula

Boling Yang, Liyuan Zheng, Lillian J. Ratliff +2

Autocurricular training is an important sub-area of multi-agent reinforcement learning~(MARL) that allows multiple agents to learn emergent skills in an unsupervised co-evolving sc…

cs.RO2022

Hierarchical Control Strategy for Moving A Robot Manipulator Between Small Containers

Paolo Torrado, Boling Yang, Joshua Smith

In this paper, we study the implementation of a model predictive controller (MPC) for the task of object manipulation in a highly uncertain environment (e.g., picking objects from…

cs.RO2022

Benchmarking Robot Manipulation with the Rubik's Cube

Boling Yang, Patrick E. Lancaster, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa +1

Benchmarks for robot manipulation are crucial to measuring progress in the field, yet there are few benchmarks that demonstrate critical manipulation skills, possess standardized m…

cs.RO2022

Improved Object Pose Estimation via Deep Pre-touch Sensing

Patrick Lancaster, Boling Yang, Joshua R. Smith

For certain manipulation tasks, object pose estimation from head-mounted cameras may not be sufficiently accurate. This is at least in part due to our inability to perfectly calibr…

cs.RO2022

Motivating Physical Activity via Competitive Human-Robot Interaction

Boling Yang, Golnaz Habibi, Patrick E. Lancaster +2

This project aims to motivate research in competitive human-robot interaction by creating a robot competitor that can challenge human users in certain scenarios such as physical ex…