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An End-to-End Framework for Modelling Pneumatic Soft Robots Based on Differentiable Finite Element Methods
Shaohong Zhong, Yao Yao, Perla Maiolino +1
Soft robots present significant modelling challenges due to their non-linearity, complex dynamics and potentially intricate geometries. These difficulties in accurate system identi…
PneuTac: Tactile Manipulation with Soft Pneumatic Robots via Unified MPM-Gaussian Splatting Simulation
Shaohong Zhong, Marco Pontin, Joe Watson +2
Soft robots and tactile sensors have demonstrated great potential in delicate manipulation tasks. Soft pneumatic robots enable safe contact through compliance, and vision-based tac…
Benchmarking World Models for Continual Learning on Compositional Tasks
Haoyu Zhou, Joe Watson, Anson Lei +1
A desirable property of a world model is the ability to learn continually across tasks, adapting to new environments without forgetting what the agent has already learnt. In partic…
From Observation to Insight: Mechanistic World Models and the Quest for Autonomous Discovery
Ingmar Posner, Anson Lei, Bernhard Schölkopf
Recent advances in foundation models have transformed AI for Science, enabling remarkably accurate predictive performance across domains ranging from protein folding to weather for…
Imitation from Heterogeneous Demonstrations using Grounded Latent-Action World Models
Tianyou Wang, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1
Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning visuomotor policies, but its generalisation and stability are limited by the scale and quality of demonstration d…
Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards
Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner +3
Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for…
Sim-to-Real Transfer for Muscle-Actuated Robots via Generalized Actuator Networks
Jan Schneider, Mridul Mahajan, Le Chen +4
Tendon drives paired with soft muscle actuation enable faster and safer robots while potentially accelerating skill acquisition. Still, these systems are rarely used in practice du…
No Epoch Like the Present: Robust Climate Emulation Requires Out-of-Distribution Generalisation
Bradley Stanley-Clamp, Anson Lei, Hannah M. Christensen +1
Climate emulation is an out-of-distribution (OOD) projection task. This is precisely the challenge where modern Machine Learning (ML) methods are most prone to failure. Consequentl…
XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies
Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3
For reinforcement learning in the real world online exploration is expensive A common practice in robotic reinforcement learning is to incorporate additional data to improve sample…
Disentangling Dynamical Systems: Causal Representation Learning Meets Local Sparse Attention
Markus W. Baumgartner, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1
Parametric system identification methods estimate the parameters of explicitly defined physical systems from data. Yet, they remain constrained by the need to provide an explicit f…