8 papers
Adaptive Expert Guidance for Efficient On-Policy Reinforcement Learning
Daniele Affinita, Ming Xu, Rudolf Reiter +2
With massively parallel simulation, on-policy Reinforcement Learning methods such as PPO have become standard in many domains. However, learning from scratch is sample-inefficient…
Vision-Based Dribbling for Humanoid Soccer via Privileged Representation Learning
Flavio Maiorana, Valerio Spagnoli, Eugenio Bugli +5
Recent advances in humanoid robotics have highlighted the importance of deployable loco-manipulation skills. Dribbling a soccer ball while evading active opponents requires simulta…
Neural-Surrogate Co-Design of Aerodynamic Shape and Control
Daniele Affinita, Mingda Xu, Benoît Valentin Gherardi +1
Control co-design jointly optimizes a robot's physical design and its controller. Existing techniques are limited in the number of model parameters and the complexity of the physic…
Multi Robot Coordination in Highly Dynamic Environments: Tackling Asymmetric Obstacles and Limited Communication
Vincenzo Suriani, Daniele Affinita, Domenico D. Bloisi +1
Coordinating a fully distributed multi-agent system (MAS) can be challenging when the communication channel has very limited capabilities in terms of sending rate and packet payloa…
Self-supervised Feature Extraction for Enhanced Ball Detection on Soccer Robots
Can Lin, Daniele Affinita, Marco E. P. Zimmatore +3
Robust and accurate ball detection is a critical component for autonomous humanoid soccer robots, particularly in dynamic and challenging environments such as RoboCup outdoor field…
Real-Time Multimodal Signal Processing for HRI in RoboCup: Understanding a Human Referee
Filippo Ansalone, Flavio Maiorana, Daniele Affinita +8
Advancing human-robot communication is crucial for autonomous systems operating in dynamic environments, where accurate real-time interpretation of human signals is essential. Robo…
LLCoach: Generating Robot Soccer Plans using Multi-Role Large Language Models
Michele Brienza, Emanuele Musumeci, Vincenzo Suriani +4
The deployment of robots into human scenarios necessitates advanced planning strategies, particularly when we ask robots to operate in dynamic, unstructured environments. RoboCup o…
Multi-Agent Coordination for a Partially Observable and Dynamic Robot Soccer Environment with Limited Communication
Daniele Affinita, Flavio Volpi, Valerio Spagnoli +3
RoboCup represents an International testbed for advancing research in AI and robotics, focusing on a definite goal: developing a robot team that can win against the human world soc…