让机器人在陌生环境中边走边学,全程本地运行不依赖网络。
Cognitively-Grounded On-Device Runtime Learning for Ground Robots in Unknown Physical Environments

- 用认知驱动的神经学习架构,结合经验回放与安全动作融合。
- 实测在真实森林和模拟荒野中实现持续安全交互与性能提升。
- 适合野外探索、无网环境下的自主机器人开发人员使用。
本文提出CogRun框架,使地面机器人在未知物理环境中,仅依靠边缘AI设备完成安全关键的运行时学习,无需预先地图或感知知识。CogRun由学习代理、理性代理和协调器三部分组成:学习代理采用新型认知神经学习架构,具备专用回放缓冲区、认知驱动的经验采样,以及将强化学习与基于实例的学习进行安全动作融合;理性代理为非学习模块,专门处理安全关键功能;协调器则管理两代理间交互,促进安全高效的运行时学习。该框架实现了边缘设备上的全自主系统(感知、学习、控制),摆脱对无线通信的依赖,适用于通信受限或无连接的复杂环境。在四足机器人的真实野外森林及模拟荒野越野车辆实验中,CogRun展现出安全且高效的运行时学习能力,支持机器人在复杂未知环境中持续安全交互以提升任务表现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents \ul{CogRun}, a framework that enables safety-critical ground robots to perform cognitively-grounded runtime learning entirely on edge-AI devices in unknown physical environments, without prior maps or perceptual knowledge. CogRun consists of three components: a Learning-Agent, a Rational-Agent, and a Coordinator. The Learning-Agent is novel in cognitive-neural learning architecture, which featurs dedicated replay buffers, cognition-driven experience sampling, and a safety-aware action blending of actor-critic reinforcement learning (RL) with instance-based learning (IBL). The Rational-Agent is a non-learning module that complements the Learning-Agent by exclusively handling safety-critical functions, while the Coordinator manages interactions between the two agents to promote safe and efficient runtime learning. CogRun's full autonomy stack (i.e., perception, learning, and control) on edge-AI devices eliminates dependence on wireless communications, enabling broader applications in challenging environments with limited or no connectivity. Experiments on a quadruped robot in real-world wild forests and on an off-road autonomous vehicle in a simulated wild forest demonstrate that CogRun enables safe and efficient runtime learning, allowing robots to safely and continuously interact with the physical world for enhancing task performance in complex, unknown environments.
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