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Wenlong Lu

3 accepted papers

2023

Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators

RSS 2023poster

We describe a system for deep reinforcement learning of robotic manipulation skills applied to a large-scale real-world task: sorting recyclables and trash in office buildings. Real-world deployment of deep RL policies requires not only effective training algorithms, but the ability to bootstrap rea…

Cited by 30SourcePDFScholar
2023

On Designing a Learning Robot: Improving Morphology for Enhanced Task Performance and Learning

IROS 2023poster

As robots become more prevalent, optimizing their design for better performance and efficiency is becoming increasingly important. However, current robot design practices overlook the impact of perception and design choices on a robot's learning capabilities. To address this gap, we propose a compre…

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2021

COCOI: Contact-aware Online Context Inference for Generalizable Non-planar Pushing

IROS 2021poster

General contact-rich manipulation problems are long-standing challenges in robotics due to the difficulty of understanding complicated contact physics. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great potential in solving robot manipulation tasks. However, existing RL policies have limited adaptabil…

Cited by 15SourcecodeScholar