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Saminda Abeyruwan

3 accepted papers

2025

Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

ICRA 2025

Achieving human-level performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics community. We present the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur humanlevel performance in competitive table tennis. Table tennis is a physically demanding sport that takes humans years to master. We contr

Cited by 43SourceScholar
2025

SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement

ICRA 2025

We demonstrate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform iterative self-improvement of robot policies. An important insight of this paper is that LLMs have a built-in ability to perform (stochastic) numerical optimization and that this property can be leveraged for explainable robot pol

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2022

Learning High Speed Precision Table Tennis on a Physical Robot

IROS 2022poster

Learning goal conditioned control in the real world is a challenging open problem in robotics. Reinforcement learning systems have the potential to learn autonomously via trial-and-error, but in practice the costs of manual reward design, ensuring safe exploration, and hyperparameter tuning are ofte…

Cited by 16SourceScholar