Robot learning from randomized simulations: A review

F Muratore, F Ramos, G Turk, W Yu… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rise of deep learning has caused a paradigm shift in robotics research, favoring
methods that require large amounts of data. Unfortunately, it is prohibitively expensive to …

A survey on deep learning and deep reinforcement learning in robotics with a tutorial on deep reinforcement learning

EF Morales, R Murrieta-Cid, I Becerra… - Intelligent Service …, 2021 - Springer
This article is about deep learning (DL) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) works
applied to robotics. Both tools have been shown to be successful in delivering data-driven …

Learning to fly—a gym environment with pybullet physics for reinforcement learning of multi-agent quadcopter control

J Panerati, H Zheng, SQ Zhou, J Xu… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic simulators are crucial for academic research and education as well as the
development of safety-critical applications. Reinforcement learning environments—simple …

A benchmark comparison of learned control policies for agile quadrotor flight

E Kaufmann, L Bauersfeld… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrotors are highly nonlinear dynamical systems that require carefully tuned controllers to
be pushed to their physical limits. Recently, learning-based control policies have been …

Regularizing action policies for smooth control with reinforcement learning

S Mysore, B Mabsout, R Mancuso… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A critical problem with the practical utility of controllers trained with deep Reinforcement
Learning (RL) is the notable lack of smoothness in the actions learned by the RL policies …

Low-level autonomous control and tracking of quadrotor using reinforcement learning

CH Pi, KC Hu, S Cheng, IC Wu - Control Engineering Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a low-level quadrotor control algorithm using neural networks with
model-free reinforcement learning, then explores the algorithm's capabilities on quadrotor …

[HTML][HTML] Robust quadruped jumping via deep reinforcement learning

G Bellegarda, C Nguyen, Q Nguyen - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider a general task of jumping varying distances and heights for a
quadrupedal robot in noisy environments, such as off of uneven terrain and with variable …

Sample factory: Egocentric 3d control from pixels at 100000 fps with asynchronous reinforcement learning

A Petrenko, Z Huang, T Kumar… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Increasing the scale of reinforcement learning experiments has allowed researchers to
achieve unprecedented results in both training sophisticated agents for video games, and in …

Decentralized control of quadrotor swarms with end-to-end deep reinforcement learning

S Batra, Z Huang, A Petrenko, T Kumar… - … on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We demonstrate the possibility of learning drone swarm controllers that are zero-shot
transferable to real quadrotors via large-scale multi-agent end-to-end reinforcement …

Neural-swarm: Decentralized close-proximity multirotor control using learned interactions

G Shi, W Hönig, Y Yue, SJ Chung - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present Neural-Swarm, a nonlinear decentralized stable controller for close-
proximity flight of multirotor swarms. Close-proximity control is challenging due to the …