用扩散模型增强强化学习,让潜水器在复杂海况下更稳定可靠。
Ocean Diviner: A Diffusion-Augmented Reinforcement Learning Framework for AUV Robust Control in Underwater Tasks
- 用扩散模型生成物理上可行的控制动作,结合历史数据提升长期规划能力。
- 混合学习架构使探索效率更高,策略在动态环境中更稳定。
- 适合水下机器人控制研究者,尤其关注鲁棒性与智能决策的场景。
自主水下航行器(AUV)在海洋勘探中至关重要,但其控制因非线性动力学和不确定环境干扰而极具挑战。本文提出一种基于扩散模型的强化学习(RL)框架,用于提升AUV在动态水下环境中的鲁棒控制能力。该框架包含两项核心创新:(1)基于扩散的动作生成机制,通过融合当前观测与历史状态、动作的高维状态编码,借助新型扩散U-Net架构生成物理可行且高质量的动作,显著提升长时程规划能力;(2)一种样本高效的混合学习架构,将扩散模型引导的探索与RL策略优化协同结合,扩散模型生成多样化候选动作,RL评价值选择最优动作,实现更高的探索效率与策略稳定性。大量仿真实验验证了该框架在复杂海洋条件下的优越鲁棒性与灵活性,优于传统控制方法,为水下任务中AUV的自适应与可靠性提供了有力支持。代码即将开源,以推动该领域后续研究。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are essential for marine exploration, yet their control remains highly challenging due to nonlinear dynamics and uncertain environmental disturbances. This paper presents a diffusion-augmented Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for robust AUV control, aiming to improve AUV's adaptability in dynamic underwater environments. The proposed framework integrates two core innovations: (1) A diffusion-based action generation framework that produces physically feasible and high-quality actions, enhanced by a high-dimensional state encoding mechanism combining current observations with historical states and actions through a novel diffusion U-Net architecture, significantly improving long-horizon planning capacity for robust control. (2) A sample-efficient hybrid learning architecture that synergizes diffusion-guided exploration with RL policy optimization, where the diffusion model generates diverse candidate actions and the RL critic selects the optimal action, achieving higher exploration efficiency and policy stability in dynamic underwater environments. Extensive simulation experiments validate the framework's superior robustness and flexibility, outperforming conventional control methods in challenging marine conditions, offering enhanced adaptability and reliability for AUV operations in underwater tasks. Finally, we will release the code publicly soon to support future research in this area.
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