28/08/2019

Title: TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects with Residual Physics
Author: Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez, Thomas Funkhouser
Conference: RSS 2019
Misc: Best Systems Paper Award
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11239
Project page: https://tossingbot.cs.princeton.edu/
Presenter: Ahmet Tekden

6/09/2019

Title: Commonsense Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition to Guide Deep Learning on Robots
Author: Tiago Mota, Mohan Sridharan
Conference: RSS 2019
Misc: Best Paper Nominee
Link: http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss15/p77.html
Presenter: Alper Ahmetoğlu

12/09/2019

Title: DensePhysNet: Learning Dense Physical Object Representations Via Multi-Step Dynamic Interactions
Author: Zhenjia Xu, Jiajun Wu, Andy Zeng, Joshua Tenenbaum, Shuran Song
Conference: RSS 2019
Link: http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss15/p46.html
Presenter: Ece Ada

27/09/2019

Title: Closing the Sim-to-Real Loop: Adapting Simulation Randomization with Real World Experience
Author: Yevgen Chebotar, Ankur Handa, Viktor Makoviychuk, Miles Macklin, Jan Issac, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox
Conference: ICRA 2019
Misc: Best Student Paper Finalist
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05687
Presenter: Melisa Şener

4/10/2019

Title: Self-attention in general
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
Presenter: Alper Ahmetoğlu

11/10/2019

Title: Learning Synergies between Pushing and Grasping with Self-supervised
Author: Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Stefan Welker, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez, Thomas Funkhouser
Conference: IROS 2018
Misc: Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award Finalist
Link: http://vpg.cs.princeton.edu/, https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09956
Presenter: Serkan Buğur

18/10/2019

Title: Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation Skills with Guided Policy Search
Author: Sergey Levine, Nolan Wagener, Pieter Abbeel
Conference: ICRA 2015
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05611
Presenter: Mete Tuluhan Akbulut

28/10/2019

Title: End-to-End Robotic Reinforcement Learning without Reward Engineering
Author: Avi Singh, Larry Yang, Kristian Hartikainen, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine
Conference: RSS 2019
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07854
Presenter: Utku Bozdoğan

22/11/2019

Title: Belief Regulated Dual Propagation Nets for Learning Action Effects on Articulated Multi-Part Objects
Author: Ahmet E. Tekden, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Mert Imre, M. Yunus Seker, Emre Ugur
Conference: ICRA 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03785
Project page: https://fzaero.github.io/BRDPN/
Presenter: Ahmet Tekden

29/11/2019

Title: Learning to Manipulate Object Collections Using Grounded State Representations
Author: Matthew Wilson, Tucker Hermans
Conference: CORL 2019
Misc: Best System Paper Award
Link: https://matwilso.github.io/projects/object_collections, https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07876
Presenter: M. Yunus Seker

6/12/2019

Title: Differentiable Physics and Stable Modes for Tool Use and Manipulation Planning
Author: Marc Toussaint, Kelsey R Allen, Kevin A Smith, Joshua B Tenenbaum
Link: http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss14/p44.pdf
Conference: RSS 2018
Misc: Best Paper Award
Presenter: Ahmet Tekden

27/03/2020

Title: Adaptive Conditional Neural Movement Primitives via Representation Sharing Between Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
Author: M.Tuluhan Akbulut, M.Yunus Seker, Ahmet E. Tekden, Yukie Nagai, Erhan Oztop, Emre Ugur
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11334
Conference: Under review for IROS 2020
Presenter: Mete Tuluhan Akbulut

17/04/2020

Title: Autonomous Reinforcement Learning of Multiple Interrelated Tasks
Author:Vieri Giuliano Santucci, Gianluca Baldassarre, Emilio Cartoni
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01374
Conference: ICDL-EpiRob 2019
Presenter: Melisa Şener

24/04/2020

Title: Modeling Conceptual Understanding in Image Reference Games
Author: Rodolfo Corona, Stephan Alaniz, Zeynep Akata
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04872
Conference: NeurIPS 2019
Presenter: Serkan Bugur

8/05/2020

Title: Improvisation through Physical Understanding: Using Novel Objects as Tools with Visual Foresight
Authors: Annie Xie, Frederik Ebert, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn
Conference: RSS 2019
Link: http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss15/p01.pdf
Presenter: Utku Bozdoğan

12/06/2020

Title: Learning Portable Representations for High-Level Planning
Authors: Steven James, Benjamin Rosman, George Konidaris
Conference: ICML 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12006
Presenter: Alper Ahmetoğlu

26/06/2020

Title: Learning Invariant Feature Spaces to Transfer Skills with Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Abhishek Gupta, Coline Devin, YuXuan Liu, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine
Conference: ICLR 2017
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02949
Presenter: Mete Tuluhan Akbulut

3/07/2020

Title: CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Aravind Srinivas, Michael Laskin, Pieter Abbeel
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04136
Presenter: Ece Ada

21/08/2020

Title: Simultaneously Learning Transferable Symbols and Language Groundings from Perceptual Data for Instruction Following
Authors: Nakul Gopalan, Eric Rosen, George Konidaris, Stefanie Tellex
Conference: RSS 2020
Link: https://roboticsconference.org/program/papers/102/
Presenter: Alper Ahmetoğlu

28/08/2020

Title: Scalable Multi-Task Imitation Learning with Autonomous Improvement
Authors: Avi Singh, Eric Jang, Alexander Irpan, Daniel Kappler, Murtaza Dalal, Sergey Levine, Mohi Khansari, Chelsea Finn
Conference: ICRA 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02636
Presenter: Utku Bozdoğan

4/09/2020

Title: Dense Object Nets: Learning Dense Visual Object Descriptors By and For Robotic Manipulation
Author: Peter R. Florence, Lucas Manuelli, Russ Tedrake
Conference: CoRL 2018
Misc: Best Paper Award
Link: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v87/florence18a/florence18a.pdf
Code: https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/pytorch-dense-correspondence
Presenter: Ahmet Tekden

11/09/2020

Title: Cautious Adaptation For Reinforcement Learning in Safety-Critical Settings
Author: Jesse Zhang, Brian Cheung, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine, Dinesh Jayaraman
Conference: ICML 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06622
Presenter: Ece Ada

18/09/2020

Title: Learning human behaviors from motion capture by adversarial imitation
Author: Josh Merel, Yuval Tassa, Dhruva TB, Sriram Srinivasan, Jay Lemmon, Ziyu Wang, Greg Wayne, Nicolas Heess
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02201
Presenter: Mehmet Selçuk Albayrak

25/09/2020

Title: Autonomous Identification and Goal-Directed Invocation of Event-Predictive Behavioral Primitives
Author: Christian Gumbsch, Martin V. Butz, Georg Martius
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09948
Presenter: Hamit Basgol

2/10/2020

Title: Better-than-Demonstrator Imitation Learning via Automatically-Ranked Demonstrations
Authors: Daniel S. Brown, Wonjoon Goo, Scott Niekum
Conference: CoRL 2019
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03976
Presenter: Utku Bozdoğan

9/10/2020

Title: CompILE: Compositional Imitation Learning and Execution
Authors: Thomas Kipf, Yujia Li, Hanjun Dai, Vinicius Zambaldi, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Edward Grefenstette, Pushmeet Kohli, Peter Battaglia
Conference: ICLM 2019
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01483
Presenter: Alara Dirik

14/04/2021

Title: A Review of Physics Simulators for Robotic Applications
Authors: Jack Collins, Shelvin Chand, Anthony Vanderkop, David Howard
Conference: IEEE Access
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9386154
Presenter: Utku Bozdoğan

7/07/2021

Title: Adversarial Motion Priors for Stylized Physics-Based Character Control
Authors: Xue Bin Peng, Ze Ma, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine, Angjoo Kanazawa
Journal: ACM TOG
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02180.pdf
Presenter: Yigit Yildirim

29/09/2021

Title: Discovering Generalizable Skills via Automated Generation of Diverse Tasks
Authors: Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Silvio Savarese, Fei-Fei Li
Conference: RSS 2021
Link: http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss17/p010.pdf
Presenter: Utku Bozdoğan