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Motion Tracking with Muscles: Predictive Control of a Parametric Musculoskeletal Canine Model
Vittorio La Barbera, Steven Bohez, Leonard Hasenclever +2
We introduce a novel musculoskeletal model of a dog, procedurally generated from accurate 3D muscle meshes. Accompanying this model is a motion capture-based locomotion task compat…
Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control of Legged Robots with MuJoCo
John Z. Zhang, Taylor A. Howell, Zeji Yi +6
We demonstrate the surprising real-world effectiveness of a very simple approach to whole-body model-predictive control (MPC) of quadruped and humanoid robots: the iterative LQR (i…
MuJoCo Playground
Kevin Zakka, Baruch Tabanpour, Qiayuan Liao +10
We introduce MuJoCo Playground, a fully open-source framework for robot learning built with MJX, with the express goal of streamlining simulation, training, and sim-to-real transfe…
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser +24
Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first…
Efficient Online Learning of Contact Force Models for Connector Insertion
Kevin Tracy, Zachary Manchester, Ajinkya Jain +4
Contact-rich manipulation tasks with stiff frictional elements like connector insertion are difficult to model with rigid-body simulators. In this work, we propose a new approach f…
Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis
Wenhao Yu, Nimrod Gileadi, Chuyuan Fu +17
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exciting progress in acquiring diverse new capabilities through in-context learning, ranging from logical reasoning to code-writing.…
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tuomas Haarnoja, Ben Moran, Guy Lever +25
We investigate whether Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) is able to synthesize sophisticated and safe movement skills for a low-cost, miniature humanoid robot that can be compo…
RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Kevin Zakka, Philipp Wu, Laura Smith +8
Replicating human-like dexterity in robot hands represents one of the largest open problems in robotics. Reinforcement learning is a promising approach that has achieved impressive…
Predictive Sampling: Real-time Behaviour Synthesis with MuJoCo
Taylor Howell, Nimrod Gileadi, Saran Tunyasuvunakool +3
We introduce MuJoCo MPC (MJPC), an open-source, interactive application and software framework for real-time predictive control, based on MuJoCo physics. MJPC allows the user to ea…
Imitate and Repurpose: Learning Reusable Robot Movement Skills From Human and Animal Behaviors
Steven Bohez, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Philemon Brakel +18
We investigate the use of prior knowledge of human and animal movement to learn reusable locomotion skills for real legged robots. Our approach builds upon previous work on imitati…
OstrichRL: A Musculoskeletal Ostrich Simulation to Study Bio-mechanical Locomotion
Vittorio La Barbera, Fabio Pardo, Yuval Tassa +4
Muscle-actuated control is a research topic that spans multiple domains, including biomechanics, neuroscience, reinforcement learning, robotics, and graphics. This type of control…
Evaluating model-based planning and planner amortization for continuous control
Arunkumar Byravan, Leonard Hasenclever, Piotr Trochim +8
There is a widespread intuition that model-based control methods should be able to surpass the data efficiency of model-free approaches. In this paper we attempt to evaluate this i…
dm_control: Software and Tasks for Continuous Control
Yuval Tassa, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Alistair Muldal +8
The dm_control software package is a collection of Python libraries and task suites for reinforcement learning agents in an articulated-body simulation. A MuJoCo wrapper provides c…
Modelling Generalized Forces with Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Transfer
Rae Jeong, Jackie Kay, Francesco Romano +6
Learning robotic control policies in the real world gives rise to challenges in data efficiency, safety, and controlling the initial condition of the system. On the other hand, sim…
Learning Gentle Object Manipulation with Curiosity-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning
Sandy H. Huang, Martina Zambelli, Jackie Kay +4
Robots must know how to be gentle when they need to interact with fragile objects, or when the robot itself is prone to wear and tear. We propose an approach that enables deep rein…
Learning human behaviors from motion capture by adversarial imitation
Josh Merel, Yuval Tassa, Dhruva TB +5
Rapid progress in deep reinforcement learning has made it increasingly feasible to train controllers for high-dimensional humanoid bodies. However, methods that use pure reinforcem…
Learning and Transfer of Modulated Locomotor Controllers
Nicolas Heess, Greg Wayne, Yuval Tassa +3
We study a novel architecture and training procedure for locomotion tasks. A high-frequency, low-level "spinal" network with access to proprioceptive sensors learns sensorimotor pr…