no code implementations • 28 Oct 2024 • Ritvik Singh, Jingzhou Liu, Karl Van Wyk, Yu-Wei Chao, Jean-Francois Lafleche, Florian Shkurti, Nathan Ratliff, Ankur Handa
To this end, we present Synthetica, a method for large-scale synthetic data generation for training robust state estimators.
no code implementations • 7 May 2021 • Mandy Xie, Anqi Li, Karl Van Wyk, Frank Dellaert, Byron Boots, Nathan Ratliff
Many IL methods, such as Dataset Aggregation (DAgger), combat challenges like distributional shift by interacting with oracular experts.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2021 • Anqi Li, Ching-An Cheng, M. Asif Rana, Man Xie, Karl Van Wyk, Nathan Ratliff, Byron Boots
Using RMPflow as a structured policy class in learning has several benefits, such as sufficient expressiveness, the flexibility to inject different levels of prior knowledge as well as the ability to transfer policies between robots.
no code implementations • 24 Dec 2020 • M. Asif Rana, Anqi Li, Dieter Fox, Sonia Chernova, Byron Boots, Nathan Ratliff
The policy structure provides the user an interface to 1) specifying the spaces that are directly relevant to the completion of the tasks, and 2) designing policies for certain tasks that do not need to be learned.
2 code implementations • L4DC 2020 • Muhammad Asif Rana, Anqi Li, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Fabio Ramos, Nathan Ratliff
The complex motions are encoded as rollouts of a stable dynamical system, which, under a change of coordinates defined by a diffeomorphism, is equivalent to a simple, hand-specified dynamical system.
no code implementations • 21 May 2020 • Michelle A. Lee, Carlos Florensa, Jonathan Tremblay, Nathan Ratliff, Animesh Garg, Fabio Ramos, Dieter Fox
Traditional robotic approaches rely on an accurate model of the environment, a detailed description of how to perform the task, and a robust perception system to keep track of the current state.
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2019 • Mustafa Mukadam, Ching-An Cheng, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Nathan Ratliff
RMPfusion supplements RMPflow with weight functions that can hierarchically reshape the Lyapunov functions of the subtask RMPs according to the current configuration of the robot and environment.
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2019 • Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Wei Yang, Jacky Liang, Yu-Wei Chao, Qian Wan, Stan Birchfield, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox
Teleoperation offers the possibility of imparting robotic systems with sophisticated reasoning skills, intuition, and creativity to perform tasks.
1 code implementation • 16 Nov 2018 • Ching-An Cheng, Mustafa Mukadam, Jan Issac, Stan Birchfield, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Nathan Ratliff
We develop a novel policy synthesis algorithm, RMPflow, based on geometrically consistent transformations of Riemannian Motion Policies (RMPs).
Robotics Systems and Control
1 code implementation • 15 Oct 2018 • Ching-An Cheng, Xinyan Yan, Nathan Ratliff, Byron Boots
We present a predictor-corrector framework, called PicCoLO, that can transform a first-order model-free reinforcement or imitation learning algorithm into a new hybrid method that leverages predictive models to accelerate policy learning.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2018 • Yevgen Chebotar, Ankur Handa, Viktor Makoviychuk, Miles Macklin, Jan Issac, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox
In doing so, we are able to change the distribution of simulations to improve the policy transfer by matching the policy behavior in simulation and the real world.