no code implementations • 8 Feb 2024 • Mohak Bhardwaj, Thomas Lampe, Michael Neunert, Francesco Romano, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Arunkumar Byravan, Markus Wulfmeier, Martin Riedmiller, Jonas Buchli
Recent advances in real-world applications of reinforcement learning (RL) have relied on the ability to accurately simulate systems at scale.
no code implementations • 21 Jul 2023 • Brendan D. Tracey, Andrea Michi, Yuri Chervonyi, Ian Davies, Cosmin Paduraru, Nevena Lazic, Federico Felici, Timo Ewalds, Craig Donner, Cristian Galperti, Jonas Buchli, Michael Neunert, Andrea Huber, Jonathan Evens, Paula Kurylowicz, Daniel J. Mankowitz, Martin Riedmiller, The TCV Team
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results for real-time control systems, including the domain of plasma magnetic control.
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2021 • Pedro A. Ortega, Markus Kunesch, Grégoire Delétang, Tim Genewein, Jordi Grau-Moya, Joel Veness, Jonas Buchli, Jonas Degrave, Bilal Piot, Julien Perolat, Tom Everitt, Corentin Tallec, Emilio Parisotto, Tom Erez, Yutian Chen, Scott Reed, Marcus Hutter, Nando de Freitas, Shane Legg
The recent phenomenal success of language models has reinvigorated machine learning research, and large sequence models such as transformers are being applied to a variety of domains.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2020 • Jost Tobias Springenberg, Nicolas Heess, Daniel Mankowitz, Josh Merel, Arunkumar Byravan, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Jackie Kay, Jonas Degrave, Julian Schrittwieser, Yuval Tassa, Jonas Buchli, Dan Belov, Martin Riedmiller
We demonstrate that additional computation spent on model-based policy improvement during learning can improve data efficiency, and confirm that model-based policy improvement during action selection can also be beneficial.
no code implementations • 2 Jan 2020 • Michael Neunert, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Markus Wulfmeier, Thomas Lampe, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Roland Hafner, Francesco Romano, Jonas Buchli, Nicolas Heess, Martin Riedmiller
In contrast, we propose to treat hybrid problems in their 'native' form by solving them with hybrid reinforcement learning, which optimizes for discrete and continuous actions simultaneously.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2018 • Steven Bohez, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Michael Neunert, Jonas Buchli, Nicolas Heess, Raia Hadsell
We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach using a number of continuous control benchmark tasks as well as a realistic, energy-optimized quadruped locomotion task.
2 code implementations • 12 Jan 2018 • Markus Giftthaler, Michael Neunert, Markus Stäuble, Jonas Buchli
The CT was designed to solve large-scale optimal control and estimation problems efficiently and allows for online control of dynamic systems.
Robotics Optimization and Control
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2017 • Michael Neunert, Markus Stäuble, Markus Giftthaler, Carmine D. Bellicoso, Jan Carius, Christian Gehring, Marco Hutter, Jonas Buchli
In this work we present a whole-body Nonlinear Model Predictive Control approach for Rigid Body Systems subject to contacts.
Robotics
2 code implementations • 29 Nov 2017 • Markus Giftthaler, Michael Neunert, Markus Stäuble, Jonas Buchli, Moritz Diehl
This paper introduces a family of iterative algorithms for unconstrained nonlinear optimal control.
Systems and Control Robotics Optimization and Control
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2017 • Markus Giftthaler, Michael Neunert, Markus Stäuble, Marco Frigerio, Claudio Semini, Jonas Buchli
First, we show a Trajectory Optimization example for the quadrupedal robot HyQ, which employs auto-differentiation on the dynamics including a contact model.
Robotics
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2017 • Jonas Buchli, Farbod Farshidian, Alexander Winkler, Timothy Sandy, Markus Giftthaler
Optimal and Learning Control for Autonomous Robots has been taught in the Robotics, Systems and Controls Masters at ETH Zurich with the aim to teach optimal control and reinforcement learning for closed loop control problems from a unified point of view.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2017 • Markus Giftthaler, Farbod Farshidian, Timothy Sandy, Lukas Stadelmann, Jonas Buchli
This work addresses the problem of kinematic trajectory planning for mobile manipulators with non-holonomic constraints, and holonomic operational-space tracking constraints.
Robotics
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2017 • Markus Giftthaler, Timothy Sandy, Kathrin Dörfler, Ian Brooks, Mark Buckingham, Gonzalo Rey, Matthias Kohler, Fabio Gramazio, Jonas Buchli
This paper presents the concept of an In situ Fabricator, a mobile robot intended for on-site manufacturing, assembly and digital fabrication.
Robotics