You Are Not Alone: Towards Cleaning Robot Navigation in Shared Environments through Deep Reinforcement Learning

Autor: Reinis Cimurs, Vilnis Turkovs, Martins Banis, Aleksandrs Korsunovs
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Algorithms, Vol 16, Iss 9, p 412 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1999-4893
DOI: 10.3390/a16090412
Popis: For mobile cleaning robot navigation, it is crucial to not only base the motion decisions on the ego agent’s capabilities but also to take into account other agents in the shared environment. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach for learning motion policy conditioned not only on ego observations of the environment, but also on incoming information about other agents. First, we extend a replay buffer to collect state observations on all agents at the scene and create a simulation setting from which to gather the training samples for DRL policy. Next, we express the incoming agent information in each agent’s frame of reference, thus making it translation and rotation invariant. We propose a neural network architecture with edge embedding layers that allows for the extraction of incoming information from a dynamic range of agents. This allows for generalization of the proposed approach to various settings with a variable number of agents at the scene. Through simulation results, we show that the introduction of edge layers improves the navigation policies in shared environments and performs better than other state-of-the-art DRL motion policy methods.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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