Crossing the gap: a deep dive into zero-shot sim-to-real transfer for dynamics
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Valassakis, Pierre
Ding, Zihan
Johns, Edward
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Zero-shot sim-to-real transfer of tasks with complex dynamics is a highly challenging and unsolved problem. A number of solutions have been proposed in recent years, but we have found that many works do not present a thorough evaluation in the real world, or underplay the significant engineering effort and task-specific fine tuning that is required to achieve the published results. In this paper, we dive deeper into the sim-to-real transfer challenge, investigate why this issuch a difficult problem, and present objective evaluations of anumber of transfer methods across a range of real-world tasks.Surprisingly, we found that a method which simply injects random forces into the simulation performs just as well as more complex methods, such as those which randomise the simulator's dynamics parameters,
Date Issued
2021-02-10
Date Acceptance
2020-07-01
Citation
2021
Publisher
IEEE
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Sponsor
Royal Academy of Engineering
Source
2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Automation & Control Systems
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Robotics
Computer Science
Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2020-10-25
Finish Date
2020-10-29
Coverage Spatial
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Virtual)