arXiv:2607. 15935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has a longstanding tradition in addressing the reach-avoid task problem, especially for controlling robotic arms.
By Jonas Weihing, Shahram Eivazi
arXiv:2606. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations.
By Raymond Yu, William Huey, Mustafa Mukadam, Anusha Nagabandi, Abhishek Gupta
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.
By Abir Bouaouda (CRAN, UIR), Mohamed Boutayeb (CRAN, UIR), Fran\c{c}ois Charpillet (LARSEN), Dominique Martinez (LORIA, ISM), R\'emi Pannequin (CRAN)
arXiv:2410. 24035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating robust and reactive manipulation strategies that can adapt to changing context information is a challenging task in robotics.
By Tim R. Winter, Leonard Kl\"upfel, Ashok M. Sundaram, Werner Friedl, Maximo A. Roa, Freek Stulp, Jo\~ao Silv\'erio
arXiv:2607. 02431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by allowing robots to improve through trial-and-error interaction beyond the states observed in demonstrations.
By Yuquan Xue, Le Xu, Zeyi Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Zhengyi Gu, Xinyang Song, Bofang Jia, Ziwei Wang
arXiv:2606. 18594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In real-world reinforcement learning (RL), the choice of action space can play a key role in shaping motion smoothness, safety, and overall task performance.
By Seyed Alireza Azimi, Homayoon Farrahi, Abhishek Naik, Colin Bellinger, A. Rupam Mahmood
arXiv:2606. 31377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon robotic manipulation is often limited by sparse and delayed rewards, while manually designing dense shaping signals is costly and brittle to changes in environments and object configurations.
By Yang Yang, Bingjie Chen, Zihan Wang, Yizhe Li, Guoping Pan, Yi Cheng, Houde Liu
arXiv:2606. 14585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging robotic systems, but safe deployment requires reliably detecting policy-induced out-of-distribution (OOD) transitions.
By Hongzhan Yu, Chenghao Li, Ruipeng Zhang, Henrik Christensen, Sicun Gao
arXiv:2602. 07341v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper focuses on the scalable robot learning for manipulation in the dexterous robot arm-hand systems, where the remote human-robot interactions via augmented reality (AR) are established to collect the expert demonstration data for improving efficiency.
By Yicheng Yang, Ruijiao Li, Lifeng Wang, Shuai Zheng, Shunzheng Ma, Keyu Zhang, Tuoyu Sun, Chenyun Dai, Jie Ding, Zhuo Zou
arXiv:2510. 00358v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Soft snake robots offer remarkable flexibility and adaptability in complex environments, yet their control remains challenging due to highly nonlinear dynamics.
By Linjin He, Xinda Qi, Dong Chen, Zhaojian Li, Xiaobo Tan
arXiv:2606. 08881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet existing evaluations are primarily conducted in simulation or on expensive robotic platforms, leaving their robustness on affordable real-world robots largely unexplored.
By Yi Yu, Xinchuan Qiu
arXiv:2606. 31043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residual reinforcement learning adapts a pretrained robot policy by learning an additive correction to its actions.
By Ethan Hirschowitz, Fabio Ramos