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Fast Reinforcement Learning for Vision-guided Mobile Robots

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Fast Reinforcement Learning for Vision-guided Mobile Robots
— This paper presents a new reinforcement learning algorithm for accelerating acquisition of new skills by real mobile robots, without requiring simulation. It speeds up Q-learning by applying memory-based sweeping and enforcing the “adjoining property”, a technique that exploits the natural ordering of sensory state spaces in many robotic applications by only allowing transitions between neighbouring states. The algorithm is tested within an image-based visual servoing framework on a docking task, in which the robot has to position its gripper at a desired configuration relative to an object on a table. In experiments, we compare the performance of the new algorithm with a hand-designed linear controller and a scheme using the linear controller as a bias to further accelerate the learning. By analysis of the controllability and docking time, we show that the biased learner could improve on the performance of the linear controller, while requiring substantially lower training ti...
Tomás Martínez-Marín, Tom Duc
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where ICRA
Authors Tomás Martínez-Marín, Tom Duckett
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