Deep reinforcement learning in smart manufacturing: A review and prospects

C Li, P Zheng, Y Yin, B Wang, L Wang - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
To facilitate the personalized smart manufacturing paradigm with cognitive automation
capabilities, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has attracted ever-increasing attention by …

Smart industrial robot control trends, challenges and opportunities within manufacturing

J Arents, M Greitans - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industrial robots and associated control methods are continuously developing. With the
recent progress in the field of artificial intelligence, new perspectives in industrial robot …

[HTML][HTML] A review on reinforcement learning for contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks

Í Elguea-Aguinaco, A Serrano-Muñoz… - Robotics and Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research and application of reinforcement learning in robotics for contact-rich manipulation
tasks have exploded in recent years. Its ability to cope with unstructured environments and …

Residual reinforcement learning for robot control

T Johannink, S Bahl, A Nair, J Luo… - … on robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional feedback control methods can solve various types of robot control problems
very efficiently by capturing the structure with explicit models, such as rigid body equations …

Reinforcement learning on variable impedance controller for high-precision robotic assembly

J Luo, E Solowjow, C Wen, JA Ojea… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise robotic manipulation skills are desirable in many industrial settings, reinforcement
learning (RL) methods hold the promise of acquiring these skills autonomously. In this …

Deep reinforcement learning for industrial insertion tasks with visual inputs and natural rewards

G Schoettler, A Nair, J Luo, S Bahl… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connector insertion and many other tasks commonly found in modern manufacturing
settings involve complex contact dynamics and friction. Since it is difficult to capture related …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic assembly of timber joints using reinforcement learning

AA Apolinarska, M Pacher, H Li, N Cote… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In architectural construction, automated robotic assembly is challenging due to occurring
tolerances, small series production and complex contact situations, especially in assembly …

A review of robotic assembly strategies for the full operation procedure: planning, execution and evaluation

Y Jiang, Z Huang, B Yang, W Yang - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of robots in mechanical assembly increases the efficiency of industrial
production. With the requirements of flexible manufacturing, it has become a research …

Joinable: Learning bottom-up assembly of parametric cad joints

KDD Willis, PK Jayaraman, H Chu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Physical products are often complex assemblies combining a multitude of 3D parts modeled
in computer-aided design (CAD) software. CAD designers build up these assemblies by …

Offline meta-reinforcement learning for industrial insertion

TZ Zhao, J Luo, O Sushkov… - … on robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) can in principle let robots automatically adapt to new tasks, but
current RL methods require a large number of trials to accomplish this. In this paper, we …