4 papers
Data-Driven Greenhouse Climate Regulation in Lettuce Cultivation Using BiLSTM and GRU Predictive Control
Soumo Emmanuel Arnaud, Marcello Calisti, Athanasios Polydoros
Efficient greenhouse management is essential for sustainable food production, but the high energy demand for climate regulation poses significant economic and environmental challen…
Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Fruit Harvesting
Emlyn Williams, Athanasios Polydoros
This paper presents a comprehensive sim-to-real pipeline for autonomous strawberry picking from dense clusters using a Franka Panda robot. Our approach leverages a custom Mujoco si…
Robotic Learning in your Backyard: A Neural Simulator from Open Source Components
Liyou Zhou, Oleg Sinavski, Athanasios Polydoros
The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting for fast and high-quality novel view synthesize has opened up the possibility to construct photo-realistic simulations from video for robotic…
Pretrained Visual Representations in Reinforcement Learning
Emlyn Williams, Athanasios Polydoros
Visual reinforcement learning (RL) has made significant progress in recent years, but the choice of visual feature extractor remains a crucial design decision. This paper compares…