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Syn Schmitt

5 accepted papers

2023

DEP-RL: Embodied Exploration for Reinforcement Learning in Overactuated and Musculoskeletal Systems

ICLR 2023top-25%

Muscle-actuated organisms are capable of learning an unparalleled diversity of dexterous movements despite their vast amount of muscles. Reinforcement learning (RL) on large musculoskeletal models, however, has not been able to show similar performance. We conjecture that ineffective exploration…

2022

Learning with Muscles: Benefits for Data-Efficiency and Robustness in Anthropomorphic Tasks

CoRL 2022poster

Humans are able to outperform robots in terms of robustness, versatility, and learning of new tasks in a wide variety of movements. We hypothesize that highly nonlinear muscle dynamics play a large role in providing inherent stability, which is favorable to learning. While recent advances have been…

Cited by 13SourceScholar
2018

Learning to Control Redundant Musculoskeletal Systems with Neural Networks and SQP: Exploiting Muscle Properties

ICRA 2018poster

Modeling biomechanical musculoskeletal systems reveals that the mapping from muscle stimulations to movement dynamics is highly nonlinear and complex, which makes it difficult to control those systems with classical techniques. In this work, we not only investigate whether machine learning approache…

Cited by 32SourceScholar