Motion-Planner Augmented RL

Our paper on augmenting reinforcement learning algorithms with motion planning has been accepted to CoRL 2020! See our paper on arXiv and checkout the paper website. See you at CoRL!

Paper on robotics in education

Our paper on using robots in education (“Building Early Elementary Teacher Confidence in Teaching Computer Science Through a Low-Cost, Scalable Research-Practitioner Collaboration”) has been accepted for publication at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference! PDF here

This was the outcome of volunteering with USC VAST to teach children and elementary school teachers programming using robots.

Research Internship @ Bosch

This week concludes my fabulous internship at Bosch Research. Through this summer, I have met a lot of great researchers and roboticists. I learned a great deal about the intersection of RL and robotics, implementing classical controllers on real robots, setting up environments and infrastructure, sim2real transfer, and a host of other concepts.

I was also glad to be  invited to give a technical introduction on reinforcement learning to my research department!!

Talk on an Introduction to RL

I was invited to give a talk on the basics of reinforcement learning to my department at Bosch during my internship. See slides below.