Adaptive Learning in Continuous Environment Using Actor-Critic Design and Echo-State Networks

Autor: Johannes Uhlemann, Günther Palm, Mohamed Oubbati
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: From Animals to Animats 12 ISBN: 9783642330926
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Popis: Approximating adaptive dynamic programming has been studied extensively in recent years for its potential scalability to solve problems involving continuous state and action spaces. The framework of adaptive critic design (ACD) addresses this issue and has been demonstrated in several case studies. The present paper proposes an implementation of ACD using an echo state network as the critic. The ESN is trained online to estimate the utility function and adapt the control policy of an embodied agent. In addition to its simple training algorithm, the ESN structure facilitates backpropagation of derivatives needed for adapting the controller. Experimental results using a mobile robot are provided to validate the proposed learning architecture.
Databáze: OpenAIRE