Sensorimotor Learning With Stability Guarantees via Autonomous Neural Dynamic Policies

State-of-the-art sensorimotor learning algorithms, either in the context of reinforcement learning or imitation learning, offer policies that can often produce unstable behaviors, damaging the robot and/or the environment. Moreover, it is very difficult to interpret the optimized controller and anal...

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Vydáno v:IEEE robotics and automation letters Ročník 10; číslo 2; s. 1760 - 1767
Hlavní autoři: Totsila, Dionis, Chatzilygeroudis, Konstantinos, Modugno, Valerio, Hadjivelichkov, Denis, Kanoulas, Dimitrios
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: IEEE 01.02.2025
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ISSN:2377-3766, 2377-3766
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Shrnutí:State-of-the-art sensorimotor learning algorithms, either in the context of reinforcement learning or imitation learning, offer policies that can often produce unstable behaviors, damaging the robot and/or the environment. Moreover, it is very difficult to interpret the optimized controller and analyze its behavior and/or performance. Traditional robot learning, on the contrary, relies on dynamical system-based policies that can be analyzed for stability/safety. Such policies, however, are neither flexible nor generic and usually work only with proprioceptive sensor states. In this work, we bridge the gap between generic neural network policies and dynamical system-based policies, and we introduce Autonomous Neural Dynamic Policies (ANDPs) that: (a) are based on autonomous dynamical systems, (b) always produce asymptotically stable behaviors, and (c) are more flexible than traditional stable dynamical system-based policies. ANDPs are fully differentiable, flexible generic-policies that accept any observation input, while ensuring asymptotic stability. Through several experiments, we explore the flexibility and capacity of ANDPs in several imitation learning tasks including experiments with image observations. The results show that ANDPs combine the benefits of both neural network-based and dynamical system-based methods.
ISSN:2377-3766
2377-3766
DOI:10.1109/LRA.2024.3524878