A survey on deep reinforcement learning algorithms for robotic manipulation

D Han, B Mulyana, V Stankovic, S Cheng - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Robotic manipulation challenges, such as grasping and object manipulation, have been
tackled successfully with the help of deep reinforcement learning systems. We give an …

[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 …

Diff-lfd: Contact-aware model-based learning from visual demonstration for robotic manipulation via differentiable physics-based simulation and rendering

X Zhu, JH Ke, Z Xu, Z Sun, B Bai, J Lv… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is an efficient technique for robots to acquire
new skills through expert observation, significantly mitigating the need for laborious manual …

Efficient sim-to-real transfer of contact-rich manipulation skills with online admittance residual learning

X Zhang, C Wang, L Sun, Z Wu… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning contact-rich manipulation skills is essential. Such skills require the robots to
interact with the environment with feasible manipulation trajectories and suitable compliance …

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 …

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 …

A model-based hybrid soft actor-critic deep reinforcement learning algorithm for optimal ventilator settings

S Chen, X Qiu, X Tan, Z Fang, Y Jin - Information sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
A ventilator is a device that mechanically assists in pumping air into the lungs, which is a life-
saving supportive therapy in an intensive care unit (ICU). In clinical scenarios, each patient …

Bridging the sim-to-real gap with dynamic compliance tuning for industrial insertion

X Zhang, M Tomizuka, H Li - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact-rich manipulation tasks often exhibit a large sim-to-real gap. For instance, industrial
assembly tasks frequently involve tight insertions where the clearance is less than 0.1 mm …

Prim-lafd: A framework to learn and adapt primitive-based skills from demonstrations for insertion tasks

Z Wu, W Lian, C Wang, M Li, S Schaal, M Tomizuka - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023 - Elsevier
Learning generalizable insertion skills in a data-efficient manner has long been a challenge
in the robot learning community. While the current state-of-the-art methods with …

Learning generalizable pivoting skills

X Zhang, S Jain, B Huang, M Tomizuka… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The skill of pivoting an object with a robotic system is challenging for the external forces that
act on the system, mainly given by contact interaction. The complexity increases when the …