3 papers
cs.RO2025
The Reality Gap in Robotics: Challenges, Solutions, and Best Practices
Elie Aljalbout, Jiaxu Xing, Angel Romero +9
Machine learning has facilitated significant advancements across various robotics domains, including navigation, locomotion, and manipulation. Many such achievements have been driv…
cs.RO2025
Refinery: Active Fine-tuning and Deployment-time Optimization for Contact-Rich Policies
Bingjie Tang, Iretiayo Akinola, Jie Xu +6
Simulation-based learning has enabled policies for precise, contact-rich tasks (e.g., robotic assembly) to reach high success rates (~80%) under high levels of observation noise an…
cs.RO2025
FORGE: Force-Guided Exploration for Robust Contact-Rich Manipulation under Uncertainty
Michael Noseworthy, Bingjie Tang, Bowen Wen +7
We present FORGE, a method for sim-to-real transfer of force-aware manipulation policies in the presence of significant pose uncertainty. During simulation-based policy learning, F…