Publication
Robot Reinforcement Learning on the Constraint Manifold
Puze Liu; Davide Tateo; Haitham Bou-Ammar; Jan Peters
In: Aleksandra Faust; David Hsu; Gerhard Neumann (Hrsg.). Conference on Robot Learning. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL-2021), November 8-11, London, United Kingdom, Pages 1357-1366, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 164, PMLR, 2021.
Abstract
Reinforcement learning in robotics is extremely challenging due to many practical issues, including safety, mechanical constraints, and wear and tear. Typically, these issues are not considered in the machine learning literature. One crucial problem in applying reinforcement learning in the real world is Safe Exploration, which requires physical and safety constraints satisfaction throughout the learning process. To explore in such a safety-critical environment, leveraging known information such as robot models and constraints is beneficial to provide more robust safety guarantees. Exploiting this knowledge, we propose a novel method to learn robotics tasks in simulation efficiently while satisfying the constraints during the learning process.