arXiv:2409.19226cs.ROcs.AI2024-09被引 2

用强化学习学一个桥梁策略,让机器人遇新情况时能快速自适应。

Learning to Bridge the Gap: Efficient Novelty Recovery with Planning and Reinforcement Learning

  • 通过引入'调用规划器'动作,让策略学会何时交还控制权给规划器。
  • 在三个模拟环境中,学习效率比纯强化学习基线快得多。
  • 策略可泛化,能应对多个新场景并完成更复杂任务。

现实世界充满不确定性。为解决长周期决策问题,需构建能在部署中适应环境变化的智能体。基于模型的规划方法虽能应对复杂任务,但在遭遇未建模的新情况时易失效。本文提出通过强化学习(RL)训练一个“桥梁策略”,以应对这类新情况。该策略采用一种简单形式:当执行特殊动作‘CallPlanner’时,策略终止并将控制权交还给规划器。这使策略学会在哪些状态下调用规划器并执行其计划可达成目标。实验表明,该方法能利用规划器知识,避免稀疏奖励下的长周期探索,实现快速学习。在三个不同复杂度的模拟环境中,所提方法均显著优于多个基线,包括纯强化学习方法。此外,学习到的桥梁策略具备泛化能力,可与规划器结合,使智能体成功应对多重新情况并完成更复杂的任务。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The real world is unpredictable. Therefore, to solve long-horizon decision-making problems with autonomous robots, we must construct agents that are capable of adapting to changes in the environment during deployment. Model-based planning approaches can enable robots to solve complex, long-horizon tasks in a variety of environments. However, such approaches tend to be brittle when deployed into an environment featuring a novel situation that their underlying model does not account for. In this work, we propose to learn a ``bridge policy'' via Reinforcement Learning (RL) to adapt to such novelties. We introduce a simple formulation for such learning, where the RL problem is constructed with a special ``CallPlanner'' action that terminates the bridge policy and hands control of the agent back to the planner. This allows the RL policy to learn the set of states in which querying the planner and following the returned plan will achieve the goal. We show that this formulation enables the agent to rapidly learn by leveraging the planner's knowledge to avoid challenging long-horizon exploration caused by sparse reward. In experiments across three different simulated domains of varying complexity, we demonstrate that our approach is able to learn policies that adapt to novelty more efficiently than several baselines, including a pure RL baseline. We also demonstrate that the learned bridge policy is generalizable in that it can be combined with the planner to enable the agent to solve more complex tasks with multiple instances of the encountered novelty.

强化学习机器人自适应规划

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