[PDF] Towards Scalable Robot Learning without Physical Robots
26 In practice, robotics engineers thus take a clever, but heavily heurstic, task-dependent approach to shape initial states. To randomly initialize a quadruped on a rough terrain, for instance, people make the robot walk o! a small region of flat ground , letting the simulation engine figure out the
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26 In practice, robotics engineers thus take a clever, but heavily heurstic, task-dependent approach to shape initial states. To randomly initialize a quadruped on a rough terrain, for instance, people make the robot walk o! a small region of flat ground , letting the simulation engine figure out the phsyics constraints. To generate random initial states for cluttered bin-picking tasks, we often drop objects from height in random order. To obtain initial states to train a fall-recovery policy for
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26 In practice, robotics engineers thus take a clever, but heavily heurstic, task-dependent approach to shape initial states. To randomly initialize a quadruped on a rough terrain, for instance, people make the robot walk o! a small region of flat ground , letting the simulation e
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