Reinforcement Learning Experiments and Benchmark for Solving Robotic Reaching Tasks

Autor: Aumjaud, Pierre, McAuliffe, David, Lera, Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Cardiff, Philip
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1285 (2021), 318-331
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62579-5_22
Popis: Reinforcement learning has shown great promise in robotics thanks to its ability to develop efficient robotic control procedures through self-training. In particular, reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to solving the reaching task with robotic arms. In this paper, we define a robust, reproducible and systematic experimental procedure to compare the performance of various model-free algorithms at solving this task. The policies are trained in simulation and are then transferred to a physical robotic manipulator. It is shown that augmenting the reward signal with the Hindsight Experience Replay exploration technique increases the average return of off-policy agents between 7 and 9 folds when the target position is initialised randomly at the beginning of each episode.
Databáze: arXiv