Improving the Robustness of Reinforcement Learning Policies With ${\mathcal {L}_{1}}$ Adaptive Control

Autor: Yikun Cheng, Pan Zhao, Fanxin Wang, Daniel J. Block, Naira Hovakimyan
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7:6574-6581
ISSN: 2377-3774
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2022.3169309
Popis: A reinforcement learning (RL) control policy could fail in a new/perturbed environment that is different from the training environment, due to the presence of dynamic variations. For controlling systems with continuous state and action spaces, we propose an add-on approach to robustifying a pre-trained RL policy by augmenting it with an $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ adaptive controller ($\mathcal{L}_{1}$AC). Leveraging the capability of an $\mathcal{L}_{1}$AC for fast estimation and active compensation of dynamic variations, the proposed approach can improve the robustness of an RL policy which is trained either in a simulator or in the real world without consideration of a broad class of dynamic variations. Numerical and real-world experiments empirically demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach in robustifying RL policies trained using both model-free and model-based methods.
Included extended work for the journal version https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9761728. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2106.02249
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