Simple Pendulum Simulation Performance Leaderboard

Controller Short Controller Description Swingup Success Swingup Time [s] Energy [J] Max. Torque [Nm] Integrated Torque [Nms] Torque Cost [N²m²] Torque Smoothness [Nm] Velocity Cost [m²/s²] RealAI Score Username Data
DDPG RL Policy learned with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient. 1/1 4.97 13.82 1.0 4.99 4.73 0.269 62.69 0.661 fwiebe data plot video
Energy Shaping and LQR Energy shaping for swingup and LQR for stabilization. 1/1 5.18 13.44 1.0 4.76 4.09 0.062 65.11 0.666 fwiebe data plot video
Direct collocation and TVLQR Direct collocation trajectory stabilized with time-varying LQR. 1/1 8.72 12.37 1.5 4.08 3.05 0.031 53.68 0.601 fwiebe data plot video
SAC RL Policy learned with Soft Actor Critic. 1/1 9.61 10.38 2.0 12.32 19.44 1.455 18.55 0.477 dharnack data plot video
iLQR and TVLQR iLQR trajectory stabilized with time-varying LQR. 1/1 5.29 10.66 1.5 3.66 2.99 0.024 40.47 0.701 fwiebe data plot video