arXiv:2503.15895cs.RO2025-03

无需专家示范,机器人可自主学习目标操作与避障。

CONTHER: Human-Like Contextual Robot Learning via Hindsight Experience Replay and Transformers without Expert Demonstrations

  • 用回放缓冲区模拟成功轨迹,解决奖励稀疏问题。
  • 结合Transformer处理上下文,成功率提升38.46%。
  • 适合真实机器人系统,适用于复杂动态任务。

本文提出CONTHER,一种新型强化学习算法,用于高效训练机器人完成目标导向的操作任务和障碍物避让。该算法采用受赫因斯经验回放(HER)启发的改进型回放缓冲区,通过人工生成成功轨迹填充经验,有效应对稀疏奖励问题,无需手动收集专家示范。同时引入基于Transformer的架构,融合先前状态上下文,使智能体决策更接近人类学习方式。内置回放缓冲区作为“内部示范者”,双重提升学习速度并支持多任务适应。实验证明,该算法在点到达任务中平均优于其他方法38.46%,最优基线28.21%,具备更高成功率与更快收敛速度。控制基于机器人关节,便于部署至真实机器人系统,并已在复杂动态轨迹跟踪与避障任务中验证。整体设计确保其可广泛应用于各类目标导向任务,为实际机器人应用提供易集成解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper presents CONTHER, a novel reinforcement learning algorithm designed to efficiently and rapidly train robotic agents for goal-oriented manipulation tasks and obstacle avoidance. The algorithm uses a modified replay buffer inspired by the Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) approach to artificially populate experience with successful trajectories, effectively addressing the problem of sparse reward scenarios and eliminating the need to manually collect expert demonstrations. The developed algorithm proposes a Transformer-based architecture to incorporate the context of previous states, allowing the agent to perform a deeper analysis and make decisions in a manner more akin to human learning. The effectiveness of the built-in replay buffer, which acts as an "internal demonstrator", is twofold: it accelerates learning and allows the algorithm to adapt to different tasks. Empirical data confirm the superiority of the algorithm by an average of 38.46% over other considered methods, and the most successful baseline by 28.21%, showing higher success rates and faster convergence in the point-reaching task. Since the control is performed through the robot's joints, the algorithm facilitates potential adaptation to a real robot system and construction of an obstacle avoidance task. Therefore, the algorithm has also been tested on tasks requiring following a complex dynamic trajectory and obstacle avoidance. The design of the algorithm ensures its applicability to a wide range of goal-oriented tasks, making it an easily integrated solution for real-world robotics applications.

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