NEWS    MERL researcher Diego Romeres gave an invited talk at University of Connecticut on Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Date released: November 22, 2019

  •  NEWS    MERL researcher Diego Romeres gave an invited talk at University of Connecticut on Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
  • Date:

    November 20, 2019

  • Description:

    Diego Romeres, a Research Scientist in MERL's Data Analytics group, gave a seminar lecture at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium of the University of Connecticut. The talk described novel reinforcement algorithms based on combining physical models with non-parametric models of robotic systems derived from data.

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  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Robotics

    •  Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Romeres, D., "Quasi-Newton Trust Region Policy Optimization", Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Danica Kragic and Komei Sugiura, Eds., October 2019, pp. 945-954.
      BibTeX TR2019-120 PDF Software
      • @inproceedings{Jha2019oct,
      • author = {Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Romeres, Diego},
      • title = {Quasi-Newton Trust Region Policy Optimization},
      • booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
      • year = 2019,
      • editor = {Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Danica Kragic and Komei Sugiura},
      • pages = {945--954},
      • month = oct,
      • publisher = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-120}
      • }
    •  Romeres, D., Jha, D.K., Dalla Libera, A., Yerazunis, W.S., Nikovski, D.N., "Semiparametrical Gaussian Processes Learning of Forward Dynamical Models for Navigating in a Circular Maze", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA.2019.8794229, May 2019, pp. 3195-3202.
      BibTeX TR2019-028 PDF Video Software
      • @inproceedings{Romeres2019may,
      • author = {Romeres, Diego and Jha, Devesh K. and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Yerazunis, William S. and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
      • title = {Semiparametrical Gaussian Processes Learning of Forward Dynamical Models for Navigating in a Circular Maze},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2019,
      • pages = {3195--3202},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794229},
      • issn = {2577-087X},
      • isbn = {978-1-5386-6027-0},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-028}
      • }