Learning to walk via deep reinforcement learning

T Haarnoja, S Ha, A Zhou, J Tan, G Tucker… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) holds the promise of automating the acquisition of
complex controllers that can map sensory inputs directly to low-level actions. In the domain …

Re-examining linear embeddings for high-dimensional Bayesian optimization

B Letham, R Calandra, A Rai… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach to optimize expensive-to-evaluate black-
box functions. A significant challenge in BO is to scale to high-dimensional parameter …

Increasing the scope as you learn: Adaptive Bayesian optimization in nested subspaces

L Papenmeier, L Nardi… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent advances have extended the scope of Bayesian optimization (BO) to expensive-to-
evaluate black-box functions with dozens of dimensions, aspiring to unlock impactful …

Learning fast adaptation with meta strategy optimization

W Yu, J Tan, Y Bai, E Coumans… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to walk in new scenarios is a key milestone on the path toward real-world
applications of legged robots. In this work, we introduce Meta Strategy Optimization, a …

DeepWalk: Omnidirectional bipedal gait by deep reinforcement learning

D Rodriguez, S Behnke - 2021 IEEE international conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bipedal walking is one of the most difficult but exciting challenges in robotics. The difficulties
arise from the complexity of high-dimensional dynamics, sensing and actuation limitations …

Rethinking optimization with differentiable simulation from a global perspective

R Antonova, J Yang… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Differentiable simulation is a promising toolkit for fast gradient-based policy optimization and
system identification. However, existing approaches to differentiable simulation have largely …

Geometry-aware Bayesian optimization in robotics using Riemannian Matérn kernels

N Jaquier, V Borovitskiy, A Smolensky… - … on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bayesian optimization is a data-efficient technique which can be used for control parameter
tuning, parametric policy adaptation, and structure design in robotics. Many of these …

Bayesian optimization meets Riemannian manifolds in robot learning

N Jaquier, L Rozo, S Calinon… - Conference on Robot …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bayesian optimization (BO) recently became popular in robotics to optimize control
parameters and parametric policies in direct reinforcement learning due to its data efficiency …

Using deep reinforcement learning to learn high-level policies on the atrias biped

T Li, H Geyer, CG Atkeson, A Rai - … International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning controllers for bipedal robots is a challenging problem, often requiring expert
knowledge and extensive tuning of parameters that vary in different situations. Recently …

[HTML][HTML] Learning to use chopsticks in diverse gripping styles

Z Yang, K Yin, L Liu - 2022 - history.siggraph.org
Learning dexterous manipulation skills is a long-standing challenge in computer graphics
and robotics, especially when the task involves complex and delicate interactions between …