arXiv:2606. 05236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic arms capable of traversing arbitrary spatial paths, especially in highly obstructed workspaces, are highly desired across several industries.
arXiv:2608. 07546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) present diverse configurations and complex control challenges, which can be addressed by deep reinforcement learning (DRL) by learning their nonlinear dynamics.
arXiv:2606. 14218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For robots to work safely in household environments, they need to be compliant and react to torque and force feedback during contact.
arXiv:2607. 06740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft robots have attracted significant attention in applications such as medical intervention, rehabilitation, and robotic manipulation due to their inherent compliance, flexibility, and high degrees of freedom.
Aero Hand Open is a tendon‑driven, anthropomorphic hand designed for affordable, simulation‑ready dexterous manipulation. The release includes a realistic simulation model of the cable transmission, an identified actuation map that links motor commands to joint motions (including thumb coupling), and a reinforcement‑learning package that trains policies entirely in simulation. These components enable policies to run on the physical hand without fine‑tuning or state estimation.
The paper introduces PA‑RL, a reinforcement‑learning framework that uses artificial potential fields as the action representation for contact‑rich robotic manipulation. Instead of directly commanding motion, the policy adjusts potential‑field parameters, which a Cartesian impedance controller then executes, decoupling task strategy from low‑level control. In peg‑in‑hole experiments, PA‑RL achieved a 100% success rate in simulation, outperformed baselines in torque and acceleration variation, and transferred to a real robot without fine‑tuning.
arXiv:2606. 16978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For residual learning that refines existing behavior, sample efficiency depends on two things: how much information each rollout returns, and how efficiently the learner uses that information.
arXiv:2607. 09218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
arXiv:2607. 09218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
Model-free reinforcement learning can acquire contact-rich robotic manipulation skills through trial-and-error interaction, but it often requires the policy to learn both task strategy and low-level m...
Planning contact-rich whole-arm manipulation is challenging because interactions that involve extended robot geometry give rise to complex contact dynamics that are difficult to model accurately. This creates a need for planning principles that do not rely heavily on precise contact models.
arXiv:2504. 17901v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a well-established approach for solving long-horizon robot planning problems.
arXiv:2509. 19696v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning-based methods excel at robot motion generation but remain limited in contact-rich physical interaction.