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. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world …

Safe learning in robotics: From learning-based control to safe reinforcement learning

L Brunke, M Greeff, AW Hall, Z Yuan… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The last half decade has seen a steep rise in the number of contributions on safe learning
methods for real-world robotic deployments from both the control and reinforcement learning …

[PDF][PDF] Vima: General robot manipulation with multimodal prompts

Y Jiang, A Gupta, Z Zhang, G Wang… - arXiv preprint …, 2022 - authors.library.caltech.edu
Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language
processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform …

The safety filter: A unified view of safety-critical control in autonomous systems

KC Hsu, H Hu, JF Fisac - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen significant progress in the realm of robot autonomy, accompanied
by the expanding reach of robotic technologies. However, the emergence of new …

Vima: Robot manipulation with multimodal prompts

Y Jiang, A Gupta, Z Zhang, G Wang, Y Dou, Y Chen… - 2023 - openreview.net
Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language
processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform …

Safe reinforcement learning by imagining the near future

G Thomas, Y Luo, T Ma - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Safe reinforcement learning is a promising path toward applying reinforcement learning
algorithms to real-world problems, where suboptimal behaviors may lead to actual negative …

Enforcing hard constraints with soft barriers: Safe reinforcement learning in unknown stochastic environments

Y Wang, SS Zhan, R Jiao, Z Wang… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an
unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state …

Constrained update projection approach to safe policy optimization

L Yang, J Ji, J Dai, L Zhang, B Zhou… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Safe reinforcement learning (RL) studies problems where an intelligent agent has to not only
maximize reward but also avoid exploring unsafe areas. In this study, we propose CUP, a …

Not only rewards but also constraints: Applications on legged robot locomotion

Y Kim, H Oh, J Lee, J Choi, G Ji, M Jung… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several earlier studies have shown impressive control performance in complex robotic
systems by designing the controller using a neural network and training it with model-free …

Safety-constrained reinforcement learning with a distributional safety critic

Q Yang, TD Simão, SH Tindemans, MTJ Spaan - Machine Learning, 2023 - Springer
Safety is critical to broadening the real-world use of reinforcement learning. Modeling the
safety aspects using a safety-cost signal separate from the reward and bounding the …