Search Results for author: Akshara Rai

Found 17 papers, 6 papers with code

Skill Transformer: A Monolithic Policy for Mobile Manipulation

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Xiaoyu Huang, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai, Andrew Szot

We present Skill Transformer, an approach for solving long-horizon robotic tasks by combining conditional sequence modeling and skill modularity.

Adaptive Coordination in Social Embodied Rearrangement

no code implementations31 May 2023 Andrew Szot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Zsolt Kira, Ruta Desai, Akshara Rai

We present the task of "Social Rearrangement", consisting of cooperative everyday tasks like setting up the dinner table, tidying a house or unpacking groceries in a simulated multi-agent environment.

EgoTV: Egocentric Task Verification from Natural Language Task Descriptions

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Rishi Hazra, Brian Chen, Akshara Rai, Nitin Kamra, Ruta Desai

The goal in EgoTV is to verify the execution of tasks from egocentric videos based on the natural language description of these tasks.

Cross-Domain Transfer via Semantic Skill Imitation

no code implementations14 Dec 2022 Karl Pertsch, Ruta Desai, Vikash Kumar, Franziska Meier, Joseph J. Lim, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai

We propose an approach for semantic imitation, which uses demonstrations from a source domain, e. g. human videos, to accelerate reinforcement learning (RL) in a different target domain, e. g. a robotic manipulator in a simulated kitchen.

Reinforcement Learning (RL) Robot Manipulation

Transformers are Adaptable Task Planners

no code implementations6 Jul 2022 Vidhi Jain, Yixin Lin, Eric Undersander, Yonatan Bisk, Akshara Rai

Every home is different, and every person likes things done in their particular way.

Attribute

Collaborative Navigation and Manipulation of a Cable-towed Load by Multiple Quadrupedal Robots

no code implementations29 Jun 2022 Chenyu Yang, Guo Ning Sue, Zhongyu Li, Lizhi Yang, Haotian Shen, Yufeng Chi, Akshara Rai, Jun Zeng, Koushil Sreenath

We develop and demonstrate one of the first collaborative autonomy framework that is able to move a cable-towed load, which is too heavy to move by a single robot, through narrow spaces with real-time feedback and reactive planning in experiments.

Learning Torque Control for Quadrupedal Locomotion

no code implementations10 Mar 2022 Shuxiao Chen, Bike Zhang, Mark W. Mueller, Akshara Rai, Koushil Sreenath

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a promising approach to developing controllers for quadrupedal robots.

Position Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Efficient and Interpretable Robot Manipulation with Graph Neural Networks

no code implementations25 Feb 2021 Yixin Lin, Austin S. Wang, Eric Undersander, Akshara Rai

Manipulation tasks, like loading a dishwasher, can be seen as a sequence of spatial constraints and relationships between different objects.

Imitation Learning Robot Manipulation

Model-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Visual Demonstrations

no code implementations18 Oct 2020 Neha Das, Sarah Bechtle, Todor Davchev, Dinesh Jayaraman, Akshara Rai, Franziska Meier

Scaling model-based inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) to real robotic manipulation tasks with unknown dynamics remains an open problem.

Model Predictive Control reinforcement-learning +1

Learning State-Dependent Losses for Inverse Dynamics Learning

1 code implementation10 Mar 2020 Kristen Morse, Neha Das, Yixin Lin, Austin S. Wang, Akshara Rai, Franziska Meier

In both settings, the structured and state-dependent learned losses improve online adaptation speed, when compared to standard, state-independent loss functions.

Meta-Learning

Re-Examining Linear Embeddings for High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Benjamin Letham, Roberto Calandra, Akshara Rai, Eytan Bakshy

We show empirically that properly addressing these issues significantly improves the efficacy of linear embeddings for BO on a range of problems, including learning a gait policy for robot locomotion.

Bayesian Optimization Misconceptions +1

Bayesian Optimization in Variational Latent Spaces with Dynamic Compression

1 code implementation10 Jul 2019 Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Tianyu Li, Danica Kragic

We propose a model and architecture for a sequential variational autoencoder that embeds the space of simulated trajectories into a lower-dimensional space of latent paths in an unsupervised way.

Bayesian Optimization

Curious iLQR: Resolving Uncertainty in Model-based RL

no code implementations15 Apr 2019 Sarah Bechtle, Yixin Lin, Akshara Rai, Ludovic Righetti, Franziska Meier

In this work, we propose a model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) framework that combines Bayesian modeling of the system dynamics with curious iLQR, an iterative LQR approach that considers model uncertainty.

Model-based Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Deep Kernels for Optimizing Locomotion Controllers

no code implementations27 Jul 2017 Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Christopher G. Atkeson

First, we demonstrate improvement in sample efficiency when optimizing a 5-dimensional controller on the ATRIAS robot hardware.

Bayesian Optimization

Sample Efficient Optimization for Learning Controllers for Bipedal Locomotion

no code implementations15 Oct 2016 Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Christopher G. Atkeson

We develop a distance metric for bipedal locomotion that enhances the sample-efficiency of Bayesian Optimization and use it to train a 16 dimensional neuromuscular model for planar walking.

Bayesian Optimization

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