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20232025
most citedNatural and Robust Walking using Reinforcement Learning without Demonstrations in High-Dimensional Musculoskeletal Models

10 citations · 11 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2025

Differentiable Simulation of Hard Contacts with Soft Gradients for Learning and Control

Anselm Paulus, A. René Geist, Pierre Schumacher +3

Contact forces introduce discontinuities into robot dynamics that severely limit the use of simulators for gradient-based optimization. Penalty-based simulators such as MuJoCo, sof…

cs.RO2024

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…

cs.RO2024

Generating Realistic Arm Movements in Reinforcement Learning: A Quantitative Comparison of Reward Terms and Task Requirements

Jhon P. F. Charaja, Isabell Wochner, Pierre Schumacher +7

The mimicking of human-like arm movement characteristics involves the consideration of three factors during control policy synthesis: (a) chosen task requirements, (b) inclusion of…

cs.LG20241 cited

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…

cs.AI2023

MIMo: A Multi-Modal Infant Model for Studying Cognitive Development

Dominik Mattern, Pierre Schumacher, Francisco M. López +4

Human intelligence and human consciousness emerge gradually during the process of cognitive development. Understanding this development is an essential aspect of understanding the…

cs.LG2023

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…