Low-Cost Multi-Agent Navigation via Reinforcement Learning With Multi-Fidelity Simulator

Autor: Jiantao Qiu, Chao Yu, Weiling Liu, Tianxiang Yang, Jincheng Yu, Yu Wang, Huazhong Yang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 84773-84782 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3085328
Popis: In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely used to solve multi-agent navigation tasks, and a high-fidelity level for the simulator is critical to narrow the gap between simulation and real-world tasks. However, high-fidelity simulators have high sampling costs and bottleneck the training model-free RL algorithms. Hence, we propose a Multi-Fidelity Simulator framework to train Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MFS-MARL), reducing the total data cost with samples generated by a low-fidelity simulator. We apply the depth-first search to obtain local feasible policies on the low-fidelity simulator as expert policies to help the original reinforcement learning algorithm explore. We built a multi-vehicle simulator with variable fidelity levels to test the proposed method and compared it with the vanilla Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) and expert actor methods. The results show that our method can effectively obtain local feasible policies and can achieve a 23% cost reduction in multi-agent navigation tasks.
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