Robotics research summaries from arXiv for December 17, 2023. You can find summaries and links to each article here.
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Efficient generation of open-loop stable limit cycles for legged robots using constrained optimization and direct transcription to NLP.
Combining trajectory optimization and reinforcement learning for efficient, data-efficient solving of optimal control problems.
Using Sobolev learning with critics to enrich training data and improve sample efficiency in actor-critic methods.
Spectral radius formulations for ensuring open-loop stability of limit cycles.
Using policy networks to warm start trajectory optimization and close the loop between model-based and model-free methods.