Search Results for author: Stelian Coros

Found 21 papers, 4 papers with code

Problem Space Transformations for Generalisation in Behavioural Cloning

no code implementations6 Nov 2024 Kiran Doshi, Marco Bagatella, Stelian Coros

The combination of behavioural cloning and neural networks has driven significant progress in robotic manipulation.

Behavioural cloning

ActSafe: Active Exploration with Safety Constraints for Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations12 Oct 2024 Yarden As, Bhavya Sukhija, Lenart Treven, Carmelo Sferrazza, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause

Under regularity assumptions on the constraints and dynamics, we show that ActSafe guarantees safety during learning while also obtaining a near-optimal policy in finite time.

Efficient Exploration reinforcement-learning +3

PokeFlex: A Real-World Dataset of Deformable Objects for Robotics

no code implementations10 Oct 2024 Jan Obrist, Miguel Zamora, Hehui Zheng, Ronan Hinchet, Firat Ozdemir, Juan Zarate, Robert K. Katzschmann, Stelian Coros

Using different data modalities, we demonstrated a use case for the PokeFlex dataset in online 3D mesh reconstruction.

RobotKeyframing: Learning Locomotion with High-Level Objectives via Mixture of Dense and Sparse Rewards

no code implementations16 Jul 2024 Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Jin Cheng, Dongho Kang, Robert Sumner, Stelian Coros

This paper presents a novel learning-based control framework that uses keyframing to incorporate high-level objectives in natural locomotion for legged robots.

NeoRL: Efficient Exploration for Nonepisodic RL

no code implementations3 Jun 2024 Bhavya Sukhija, Lenart Treven, Florian Dörfler, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause

We study the problem of nonepisodic reinforcement learning (RL) for nonlinear dynamical systems, where the system dynamics are unknown and the RL agent has to learn from a single trajectory, i. e., without resets.

Efficient Exploration Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Rethinking Robustness Assessment: Adversarial Attacks on Learning-based Quadrupedal Locomotion Controllers

no code implementations21 May 2024 Fan Shi, Chong Zhang, Takahiro Miki, Joonho Lee, Marco Hutter, Stelian Coros

This difficulty arises from the requirement to pinpoint vulnerabilities across a long-tailed distribution within a high-dimensional, temporally sequential space.

Deep Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Data-Efficient Task Generalization via Probabilistic Model-based Meta Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations13 Nov 2023 Arjun Bhardwaj, Jonas Rothfuss, Bhavya Sukhija, Yarden As, Marco Hutter, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause

We introduce PACOH-RL, a novel model-based Meta-Reinforcement Learning (Meta-RL) algorithm designed to efficiently adapt control policies to changing dynamics.

Meta-Learning Meta Reinforcement Learning +2

Neural Metamaterial Networks for Nonlinear Material Design

no code implementations15 Sep 2023 Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski

Nonlinear metamaterials with tailored mechanical properties have applications in engineering, medicine, robotics, and beyond.

Ungar $\unicode{x2013}$ A C++ Framework for Real-Time Optimal Control Using Template Metaprogramming

1 code implementation13 Sep 2023 Flavio De Vincenti, Stelian Coros

We present Ungar, an open-source library to aid the implementation of high-dimensional optimal control problems (OCPs).

Code Generation Model Predictive Control

Tuning Legged Locomotion Controllers via Safe Bayesian Optimization

1 code implementation12 Jun 2023 Daniel Widmer, Dongho Kang, Bhavya Sukhija, Jonas Hübotter, Andreas Krause, Stelian Coros

This paper presents a data-driven strategy to streamline the deployment of model-based controllers in legged robotic hardware platforms.

Bayesian Optimization Efficient Exploration

RL + Model-based Control: Using On-demand Optimal Control to Learn Versatile Legged Locomotion

no code implementations29 May 2023 Dongho Kang, Jin Cheng, Miguel Zamora, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Stelian Coros

These reference motions serve as targets for the RL policy to imitate, leading to the development of robust control policies that can be learned with reliability.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Efficient Learning of High Level Plans from Play

no code implementations16 Mar 2023 Núria Armengol Urpí, Marco Bagatella, Otmar Hilliges, Georg Martius, Stelian Coros

Real-world robotic manipulation tasks remain an elusive challenge, since they involve both fine-grained environment interaction, as well as the ability to plan for long-horizon goals.

Deep Reinforcement Learning Motion Planning +2

Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization With Learned Dynamics

no code implementations9 Apr 2022 Bhavya Sukhija, Nathanael Köhler, Miguel Zamora, Simon Zimmermann, Sebastian Curi, Andreas Krause, Stelian Coros

In our hardware experiments, we demonstrate that our learned model can represent complex dynamics for both the Spot and Radio-controlled (RC) car, and gives good performance in combination with trajectory optimization methods.

Learning Solution Manifolds for Control Problems via Energy Minimization

no code implementations7 Mar 2022 Miguel Zamora, Roi Poranne, Stelian Coros

We formulate the learning of solution manifolds as a minimization of the energy terms of a control objective integrated over the space of problems of interest.

Imitation Learning Model Predictive Control

Spatial Computing and Intuitive Interaction: Bringing Mixed Reality and Robotics Together

no code implementations3 Feb 2022 Jeffrey Delmerico, Roi Poranne, Federica Bogo, Helen Oleynikova, Eric Vollenweider, Stelian Coros, Juan Nieto, Marc Pollefeys

Spatial computing -- the ability of devices to be aware of their surroundings and to represent this digitally -- offers novel capabilities in human-robot interaction.

Mixed Reality

NTopo: Mesh-free Topology Optimization using Implicit Neural Representations

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Jonas Zehnder, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski

Recent advances in implicit neural representations show great promise when it comes to generating numerical solutions to partial differential equations.

Self-Supervised Learning

Deep Physics-aware Inference of Cloth Deformation for Monocular Human Performance Capture

no code implementations25 Nov 2020 Yue Li, Marc Habermann, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Thabo Beeler, Christian Theobalt

Recent monocular human performance capture approaches have shown compelling dense tracking results of the full body from a single RGB camera.

ADD: Analytically Differentiable Dynamics for Multi-Body Systems with Frictional Contact

1 code implementation2 Jul 2020 Moritz Geilinger, David Hahn, Jonas Zehnder, Moritz Bächer, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros

We present a differentiable dynamics solver that is able to handle frictional contact for rigid and deformable objects within a unified framework.

Motion Planning Self-Supervised Learning

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