15 papers
Directional Constraints for Efficient Exploration in Safe Reinforcement Learning
Paolo Magliano, Puze Liu, Jan Peters +2
Reinforcement Learning has revolutionized the landscape of robotic research, allowing robust learning of complex robotic skills in simulation. However, real-world deployment in ope…
Trust Region Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Explicit Dual Ascent using Local Policy Updates
Anish Diwan, Davide Tateo, Christopher E. Mower +3
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is typically formulated as maximizing entropy subject to matching the distribution of expert trajectories. Classical (dual-ascent) IRL guarante…
Evaluation of an Actuated Spine in Agile Quadruped Locomotion
Nico Bohlinger, Piotr Kicki, Davide Tateo +2
The spine plays a crucial role in the dynamic locomotion of quadrupedal animals, improving the stability, speed, and efficiency of their gait, especially for fast-paced and highly…
One Policy to Run Them All: an End-to-end Learning Approach to Multi-Embodiment Locomotion
Nico Bohlinger, Grzegorz Czechmanowski, Maciej Krupka +4
Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques are achieving state-of-the-art results in robust legged locomotion. While there exists a wide variety of legged platforms such as quadruped,…
Robust Localization, Mapping, and Navigation for Quadruped Robots
Dyuman Aditya, Junning Huang, Nico Bohlinger +5
Quadruped robots are currently a widespread platform for robotics research, thanks to powerful Reinforcement Learning controllers and the availability of cheap and robust commercia…
Distilling Contact Planning for Fast Trajectory Optimization in Robot Air Hockey
Julius Jankowski, Ante MariÄ, Puze Liu +3
Robot control through contact is challenging as it requires reasoning over long horizons and discontinuous system dynamics. Highly dynamic tasks such as Air Hockey additionally req…