| Meeting | Readings |
|---|---|
| September 2nd | Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: A Survey. Kober, Bagnell and Peters, IJRR 2013. |
| September 4th | (same as above) |
| September 9th | Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. Kohl and Stone, ICRA 2004. Path Integral Policy Improvement with Covariance Matrix Adaptation. Stulp and Sigaud, ICML 2012. |
| September 11th | PILCO: A Model-Based and Data-Efficient Approach to Policy Search. Deisenroth and Rasmussen, ICML 2011. |
| September 16th | No class |
| September 18th | No class |
| September 23rd | Learning Parameterized Skills, da Silva, Konidaris, and Barto, ICML 2012. |
| September 25th | Learning to select and generalize striking movements in robot table tennis, Mulling, Kober, Kroemer, and Peters, IJRR 2013. |
| September 30th | Between MDPs and Semi-MDPs: A Framework for Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, Sutton, Precup, and Singh, AIJ 1999. |
| October 2nd |
Skill characterization based on betweenness, Simsek and Barto, NIPS 2008. Skill Discovery in Continuous Reinforcement Learning Domains using Skill Chaining. Konidaris and Barto, NIPS 2009. |
| October 7th | Autonomous Skill Acquisition on a Mobile Manipulator. Konidaris, Kuindersma, Grupen and Barto, AAAI 2011. |
| October 9th | Incremental Semantically Grounded Learning from Demonstration. Niekum, Chitta, Marthi, Osentoski, and Barto. RSS 2013. |
| October 14th | No class (Fall break) |
| October 16th | Advanced Introduction to Planning: Models and Methods, IJCAI 2011 Tutorial, Hector Geffner. A Brief Overview of AI Planning, Jussi Rintanen. |
| October 21st | Constructing Symbolic Representations for High-Level Planning, Konidaris, Kaelbling, and Lozano-Perez, AAAI 2014. |
| October 23rd | No class |
| October 28th | Building abstraction hierarchies (unpublished). |
| October 30th | Robot Motion Planning (slides), Burgard, Stachniss, Bennewitz, and Arras (first 64 slides) |
| November 4th | Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning, Karaman and Frazzoli. IJRR 2012 |
| November 6th | CHOMP: Covariant Hamiltonian Optimization
for Motion Planning, Zucker, Ratliff, Dragan, Pivtoraiko, Klingensmith, Dellin, Bagnell, and Srinivasa. IJRR 2012. STOMP: Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Motion Planning, Kalakrishnan, Chitta, Theodorou, Pastor and Schaal. ICRA 2011. |
| November 11th | A Hierarchical Approach to Manipulation with Diverse Actions, Barry, Kaelbling and Lozano-Perez, ICRA 2013. |
| November 13th | No class |
| November 18th | Guest Lecture: Kris Hauser. |
| November 20th | Hierarchical Task and Motion Planning in the Now, Kaelbling and Lozano-Perez, ICRA 2011. |
| November 25th | No class (Thanksgiving) |
| November 27th | No class (Thanksgiving) |