Title
Safe robot learning by energy limitation
Abstract
Online robot learning has been a goal for researchers for several decades. A problem arises when learning algorithms need to explore the environment as actions cannot easily be anticipated. Because of this, safety is a major issue when using learning algorithms. This paper presents a framework for safe robot learning by the use of region-classification and energy limitation. The main task of the framework is to ensure safety regardless of a learning algorithm's input to a system. This is necessary to allow a learning robot to explore environments without damaging itself or its surroundings. To ensure safety, the state-space is divided into fatal, supercritical, critical and safe regions, depending on the energy of the system. To show the adaptability of the framework it is used on two different systems; an actuated swinging pendulum and a mobile platform. In both cases obstacles with unknown locations must are avoided successfully.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33503-7_22
ICIRA (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
safe region,mobile platform,different system,main task,online robot learning,energy limitation,major issue,cases obstacle,safe robot,actuated swinging pendulum
Adaptability,Online learning,Robot learning,Active learning (machine learning),Control engineering,Engineering,Pendulum,Error-driven learning,Robot,Reinforcement learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sigurd Mørkved Albrektsen100.34
Sigurd Aksnes Fjerdingen2142.46