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WAMJET: A Harness for World Action Model Acceleration
Le Chen, Lixin Liu, Jan Schneider +4
World Action Models (WAMs) leverage pretrained video foundation models for robot manipulation, but their large backbones and video-action co-prediction are expensive. Although exis…
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…
Dexterous Robotic Piano Playing at Scale
Le Chen, Yi Zhao, Jan Schneider +7
Endowing robot hands with human-level dexterity has been a long-standing goal in robotics. Bimanual robotic piano playing represents a particularly challenging task: it is high-dim…
Learning Nonlinear Causal Reductions to Explain Reinforcement Learning Policies
Armin Kekić, Jan Schneider, Dieter Büchler +2
Why do reinforcement learning (RL) policies fail or succeed? This is a challenging question due to the complex, high-dimensional nature of agent-environment interactions. In this w…
RLDG: Robotic Generalist Policy Distillation via Reinforcement Learning
Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Jianlan Luo +1
Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, th…
RP1M: A Large-Scale Motion Dataset for Piano Playing with Bi-Manual Dexterous Robot Hands
Yi Zhao, Le Chen, Jan Schneider +5
It has been a long-standing research goal to endow robot hands with human-level dexterity. Bi-manual robot piano playing constitutes a task that combines challenges from dynamic ta…
Learning to Control Emulated Muscles in Real Robots: Towards Exploiting Bio-Inspired Actuator Morphology
Pierre Schumacher, Lorenz Krause, Jan Schneider +3
Recent studies have demonstrated the immense potential of exploiting muscle actuator morphology for natural and robust movement -- in simulation. A validation on real robotic hardw…
Identifying Policy Gradient Subspaces
Jan Schneider, Pierre Schumacher, Simon Guist +4
Policy gradient methods hold great potential for solving complex continuous control tasks. Still, their training efficiency can be improved by exploiting structure within the optim…
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Embodiment Collaboration, Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman +291
Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, thi…
Investigating the Impact of Action Representations in Policy Gradient Algorithms
Jan Schneider, Pierre Schumacher, Daniel Häufle +2
Reinforcement learning~(RL) is a versatile framework for learning to solve complex real-world tasks. However, influences on the learning performance of RL algorithms are often poor…
Safe & Accurate at Speed with Tendons: A Robot Arm for Exploring Dynamic Motion
Simon Guist, Jan Schneider, Hao Ma +9
Operating robots precisely and at high speeds has been a long-standing goal of robotics research. Balancing these competing demands is key to enabling the seamless collaboration of…
Hindsight States: Blending Sim and Real Task Elements for Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Simon Guist, Jan Schneider, Alexander Dittrich +3
Reinforcement learning has shown great potential in solving complex tasks when large amounts of data can be generated with little effort. In robotics, one approach to generate trai…
AIMY: An Open-source Table Tennis Ball Launcher for Versatile and High-fidelity Trajectory Generation
Alexander Dittrich, Jan Schneider, Simon Guist +5
To approach the level of advanced human players in table tennis with robots, generating varied ball trajectories in a reproducible and controlled manner is essential. Current ball…