Deep reinforcement learning-based rehabilitation robot trajectory planning with optimized reward functions

Autor: Xusheng Wang, Jiexin Xie, Shijie Guo, Yue Li, Pengfei Sun, Zhongxue Gan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Vol 13 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-8140
16878140
DOI: 10.1177/16878140211067011
Popis: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a new solution for rehabilitation robot trajectory planning in the unstructured working environment, which can bring great convenience to patients. Previous researches mainly focused on optimization strategies but ignored the construction of reward functions, which leads to low efficiency. Different from traditional sparse reward function, this paper proposes two dense reward functions. First, azimuth reward function mainly provides a global guidance and reasonable constraints in the exploration. To further improve the efficiency, a process-oriented aspiration reward function is proposed, it is capable of accelerating the exploration process and avoid locally optimal solution. Experiments show that the proposed reward functions are able to accelerate the convergence rate by 38.4% on average with the mainstream DRL methods. The mean of convergence also increases by 9.5%, and the percentage of standard deviation decreases by 21.2%–23.3%. Results show that the proposed reward functions can significantly improve learning efficiency of DRL methods, and then provide practical possibility for automatic trajectory planning of rehabilitation robot.
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