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.
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.
arXiv:2606. 31043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residual reinforcement learning adapts a pretrained robot policy by learning an additive correction to its actions.
arXiv:2607. 10369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching policies have emerged as an effective policy parameterization for robot learning.
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.
arXiv:2606. 10825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies (DPs) have emerged as expressive policy representations for robot learning, often used with imitation learning methods such as behavioral cloning (BC).
arXiv:2605. 05172v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Behavior Cloning (BC) has emerged as a highly effective paradigm for robot learning.
arXiv:2606. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations.
arXiv:2606. 00313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust deployment of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies on real robots remains challenging due to discrepancies between simulation and real-world dynamics.
arXiv:2608. 11363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal in robot learning is to move beyond task-specific human data collection toward robots that improve through autonomous interaction.
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
arXiv:2603. 10263v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Distribution Contractive Reinforcement Learning (DICE-RL), a framework that uses reinforcement learning (RL) as a "distribution contraction" operator to refine pretrained generative robot policies.
arXiv:2506. 15700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Control contraction metrics (CCMs)-defined by Riemannian metrics under which a closed-loop system is incrementally exponentially stable-offer a constructive framework for synthesizing contracting policies in nonlinear path-tracking problems.