4 papers
Onboard MuJoCo-based Model Predictive Control for Shipboard Crane with Double-Pendulum Sway Suppression
Oscar Pang, Lisa Coiffard, Paul Templier +3
Transferring heavy payloads in maritime settings relies on efficient crane operation, limited by hazardous double-pendulum payload sway. This sway motion is further exacerbated in…
From Tabula Rasa to Emergent Abilities: Discovering Robot Skills via Real-World Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
Luca Grillotti, Lisa Coiffard, Oscar Pang +2
Autonomous skill discovery aims to enable robots to acquire diverse behaviors without explicit supervision. Learning such behaviors directly on physical hardware remains challengin…
Overcoming Deceptiveness in Fitness Optimization with Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
Lisa Coiffard, Paul Templier, Antoine Cully
Policy optimization seeks the best solution to a control problem according to an objective or fitness function, serving as a fundamental field of engineering and research with appl…
Dominated Novelty Search: Rethinking Local Competition in Quality-Diversity
Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Maxence Faldor, Luca Grillotti +4
Quality-Diversity is a family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse, high-performing solutions through local competition principles inspired by natural evolution. While…