A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theory and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision
making tasks. When it comes to deploying RL in the real world, safety concerns are usually …

A review of physics simulators for robotic applications

J Collins, S Chand, A Vanderkop, D Howard - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of simulators in robotics research is widespread, underpinning the majority of recent
advances in the field. There are now more options available to researchers than ever before …

Metadrive: Composing diverse driving scenarios for generalizable reinforcement learning

Q Li, Z Peng, L Feng, Q Zhang, Z Xue… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driving safely requires multiple capabilities from human and intelligent agents, such as the
generalizability to unseen environments, the safety awareness of the surrounding traffic, and …

Advanced applications of industrial robotics: New trends and possibilities

A Dzedzickis, J Subačiūtė-Žemaitienė, E Šutinys… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review is dedicated to the advanced applications of robotic technologies in the
industrial field. Robotic solutions in areas with non-intensive applications are presented, and …

Autonomy for surgical robots: Concepts and paradigms

T Haidegger - IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted and computer-integrated surgery provides innovative, minimally invasive
solutions to heal complex injuries and diseases. The dominant portion of these surgical …

Qeba: Query-efficient boundary-based blackbox attack

H Li, X Xu, X Zhang, S Yang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML), especially deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely
used in various applications, including several safety-critical ones (eg autonomous driving) …

Accelerating surgical robotics research: A review of 10 years with the da vinci research kit

C D'Ettorre, A Mariani, A Stilli… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Surrol: An open-source reinforcement learning centered and dvrk compatible platform for surgical robot learning

J Xu, B Li, B Lu, YH Liu, Q Dou… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous surgical execution relieves tedious routines and surgeon's fatigue. Recent
learning-based methods, especially reinforcement learning (RL) based methods, achieve …

Super: A surgical perception framework for endoscopic tissue manipulation with surgical robotics

Y Li, F Richter, J Lu, EK Funk… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional control and task automation have been successfully demonstrated in a variety of
structured, controlled environments through the use of highly specialized modeled robotic …

Joint synthesis of safety certificate and safe control policy using constrained reinforcement learning

H Ma, C Liu, SE Li, S Zheng… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Safety is the major consideration in controlling complex dynamical systems using
reinforcement learning (RL), where the safety certificates can provide provable safety …