Deep reinforcement learning for robotics: A survey of real-world successes

C Tang, B Abbatematteo, J Hu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly its combination with deep neural networks,
referred to as deep RL (DRL), has shown tremendous promise across a wide range of …

Agile but safe: Learning collision-free high-speed legged locomotion

T He, C Zhang, W Xiao, G He, C Liu, G Shi - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Legged robots navigating cluttered environments must be jointly agile for efficient task
execution and safe to avoid collisions with obstacles or humans. Existing studies either …

Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision-Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation

J Chen, J Frey, R Zhou, T Miki… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying the physical properties of the surrounding environment is essential for robotic
locomotion and navigation to deal with non-geometric hazards, such as slippery and …

Top-nav: Legged navigation integrating terrain, obstacle and proprioception estimation

J Ren, Y Liu, Y Dai, J Long, G Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.15256, 2024 - arxiv.org
Legged navigation is typically examined within open-world, off-road, and challenging
environments. In these scenarios, estimating external disturbances requires a complex …

Arm-Constrained Curriculum Learning for Loco-Manipulation of the Wheel-Legged Robot

Z Wang, Y Jia, L Shi, H Wang, H Zhao, X Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Incorporating a robotic manipulator into a wheel-legged robot enhances its agility and
expands its potential for practical applications. However, the presence of potential instability …

Constrained Skill Discovery: Quadruped Locomotion with Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning

V Atanassov, W Yu, AL Mitchell, MN Finean… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Representation learning and unsupervised skill discovery can allow robots to acquire
diverse and reusable behaviors without the need for task-specific rewards. In this work, we …

Navigating Quadrupedal Robots in Complex Environments: Terrain Reconstruction, Navigational Planning, and Dynamic Interaction

B Yang - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Through rigorous research into the mechanical designs and locomotion algorithms of
quadrupedal robots, they have been enabled to agilely traverse a variety of scenarios with …