title: Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Diverse Visuomotor Skills
abstract: We propose a general deep reinforcement learning method and apply it to robot manipulation tasks. Our approach leverages demonstration data to assist a reinforcement learning agent in learning to solve a wide range of tasks, mainly previously unsolved. We train visuomotor policies end-to-end to learn a direct mapping from RGB camera inputs to joint velocities. Our experiments indicate that our reinforcement and imitation approach can solve contact-rich robot manipulation tasks that neither the state-of-the-art reinforcement nor imitation learning method can solve alone. We also illustrate that these policies achieved zero-shot sim2real transfer by training with large visual and dynamics variations.
authors: Yuke Zhu Ziyu Wang Josh Merel Andrei Rusu Tom Erez Serkan Cabi Saran Tunyasuvunakool János Kramár Raia Hadsell Nando de Freitas Nicolas Heess
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