Eureka: Human-level reward design via coding large language models

YJ Ma, W Liang, G Wang, DA Huang, O Bastani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled as high-level semantic planners for
sequential decision-making tasks. However, harnessing them to learn complex low-level …

Isaac gym: High performance gpu-based physics simulation for robot learning

V Makoviychuk, L Wawrzyniak, Y Guo, M Lu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Isaac Gym offers a high performance learning platform to train policies for wide variety of
robotics tasks directly on GPU. Both physics simulation and the neural network policy …

Dextreme: Transfer of agile in-hand manipulation from simulation to reality

A Handa, A Allshire, V Makoviychuk… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work has demonstrated the ability of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to
learn complex robotic behaviours in simulation, including in the domain of multi-fingered …

Orbit: A unified simulation framework for interactive robot learning environments

M Mittal, C Yu, Q Yu, J Liu, N Rudin… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present Orbit, a unified and modular framework for robot learning powered by Nvidia
Isaac Sim. It offers a modular design to easily and efficiently create robotic environments …

Envpool: A highly parallel reinforcement learning environment execution engine

J Weng, M Lin, S Huang, B Liu… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
There has been significant progress in developing reinforcement learning (RL) training
systems. Past works such as IMPALA, Apex, Seed RL, Sample Factory, and others, aim to …

Accelerated policy learning with parallel differentiable simulation

J Xu, V Makoviychuk, Y Narang, F Ramos… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning can generate complex control policies, but requires large
amounts of training data to work effectively. Recent work has attempted to address this issue …

Factory: Fast contact for robotic assembly

Y Narang, K Storey, I Akinola, M Macklin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Robotic assembly is one of the oldest and most challenging applications of robotics. In other
areas of robotics, such as perception and grasping, simulation has rapidly accelerated …

Transferring dexterous manipulation from gpu simulation to a remote real-world trifinger

A Allshire, M MittaI, V Lodaya… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In-hand manipulation of objects is an important capability to enable robots to carry-out tasks
which demand high levels of dexterity. This work presents a robot systems approach to …

Industreal: Transferring contact-rich assembly tasks from simulation to reality

B Tang, MA Lin, I Akinola, A Handa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robotic assembly is a longstanding challenge, requiring contact-rich interaction and high
precision and accuracy. Many applications also require adaptivity to diverse parts, poses …

Dexpbt: Scaling up dexterous manipulation for hand-arm systems with population based training

A Petrenko, A Allshire, G State, A Handa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this work, we propose algorithms and methods that enable learning dexterous object
manipulation using simulated one-or two-armed robots equipped with multi-fingered hand …