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Deep reinforcement learning for collaborative robotics

The project was focused on incremental autonomous learning, experience transfer, and robust avoidance strategy, with the virtualization of a real‐world robot to learn reaching a target while avoiding obstacles in a simulation environment.

Virtualization of a real‐world robot: 3D mesh > movable parts > joints and direct kinematic chain

Virtualization of a real-world robot

Learning to reach a target while avoiding obstacles in a simulation environment with incremental autonomous learning, with experience transfer and robust avoidance strategy:

Simulation environment  Simulation environment

Related publications

  • Bianca Sangiovanni, Gian Paolo Incremona, Marco Piastra, Antonella Ferrara (2020). Self-Configuring Robot Path Planning With Obstacle Avoidance via Deep Reinforcement Learning, in IEEE Control Systems Letters, pp.(99):1-1, DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2020.3002852
  • Bianca Sangiovanni, Gian Paolo Incremona, Antonella Ferrara, Marco Piastra (2019). Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Self-Configuring Integral Sliding Mode Control Scheme for Robot Manipulators, 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and ControlAt, Miami Beach, FL (USA), DOI:10.1109/CDC.2018.8619843.
  • Bianca Sangiovanni, Angelo Rendiniello, Gian Paolo Incremona, Antonella Ferrara, Marco Piastra (2018). Deep Reinforcement Learning for Collision Avoidance of Robotic Manipulators, 17th European Control Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, DOI:10.23919/ECC.2018.8550363.
See also: I robot Epson entrano all’Università di Pavia per imparare a interagire con l’uomo (Video), from UNIPV.news (2020).
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Laboratorio di Visione Artificiale e Multimedia
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione
Università di Pavia
Via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia - ITALY

+39 0382 98 5372/5486

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