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Publications (8)

cs.RO2023

Range Limited Coverage Control using Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams

Max Rudolph, Sean Wilson, Magnus Egerstedt

In this paper, we investigate how heterogeneous multi-robot systems with different sensing capabilities can observe a domain with an apriori unknown density function. Common covera…

cs.LG2024

Learning Action-based Representations Using Invariance

Max Rudolph, Caleb Chuck, Kevin Black +3

Robust reinforcement learning agents using high-dimensional observations must be able to identify relevant state features amidst many exogeneous distractors. A representation that…

cs.AI2025

RLZero: Direct Policy Inference from Language Without In-Domain Supervision

Harshit Sikchi, Siddhant Agarwal, Pranaya Jajoo +6

The reward hypothesis states that all goals and purposes can be understood as the maximization of a received scalar reward signal. However, in practice, defining such a reward sign…

cs.RO2024

Robot Air Hockey: A Manipulation Testbed for Robot Learning with Reinforcement Learning

Caleb Chuck, Carl Qi, Michael J. Munje +13

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 might f…

cs.RO2022

Rethinking Sim2Real: Lower Fidelity Simulation Leads to Higher Sim2Real Transfer in Navigation

Joanne Truong, Max Rudolph, Naoki Yokoyama +3

If we want to train robots in simulation before deploying them in reality, it seems natural and almost self-evident to presume that reducing the sim2real gap involves creating simu…

cs.LG2026

Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

Max Rudolph, Nathan Lichtle, Sobhan Mohammadpour +6

In the past decade, motivated by the putative failure of naive self-play deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in adversarial imperfect-information games, researchers have developed nu…

cs.RO2021

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation

Max Rudolph, Sonia Chernova, Harish Ravichandar

Multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problems involve optimizing the allocation of robots to tasks. MRTA problems are known to be challenging when tasks require multiple robots and t…

cs.RO2024

Generalization of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Policies via Awareness and Communication of Capabilities

Pierce Howell, Max Rudolph, Reza Torbati +2

Recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) are enabling impressive coordination in heterogeneous multi-robot teams. However, existing approaches often overlook th…