5 papers
Dynamic Policy Learning for Legged Robot with Simplified Model Pretraining and Model-Homotopy-Inspired Transfer
Dongyun Kang, Min-Gyu Kim, Tae-Gyu Song +3
Generating dynamic motions for legged robots remains a challenging problem. While reinforcement learning has achieved notable success in various legged locomotion tasks, producing…
Do Looks Matter? Exploring Functional and Aesthetic Design Preferences for a Robotic Guide Dog
Aviv L. Cohav, A. Xinran Gong, J. Taery Kim +3
Dog guides offer an effective mobility solution for blind or visually impaired (BVI) individuals, but conventional dog guides have limitations including the need for care, potentia…
Learning a High-quality Robotic Wiping Policy Using Systematic Reward Analysis and Visual-Language Model Based Curriculum
Yihong Liu, Dongyeop Kang, Sehoon Ha
Autonomous robotic wiping is an important task in various industries, ranging from industrial manufacturing to sanitization in healthcare. Deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) has…
PrivilegedDreamer: Explicit Imagination of Privileged Information for Rapid Adaptation of Learned Policies
Morgan Byrd, Jackson Crandell, Mili Das +3
Numerous real-world control problems involve dynamics and objectives affected by unobservable hidden parameters, ranging from autonomous driving to robotic manipulation, which caus…
Understanding Expectations for a Robotic Guide Dog for Visually Impaired People
J. Taery Kim, Morgan Byrd, Jack L. Crandell +3
Robotic guide dogs hold significant potential to enhance the autonomy and mobility of blind or visually impaired (BVI) individuals by offering universal assistance over unstructure…