Title
Learning robotic soccer controllers with the Q-Batch update-rule
Abstract
Robotic soccer provides a rich environment for the development of Reinforcement Learning controllers. The competitive environment imposes strong requirements on performance of the developed controllers. RL offers a valuable alternative for the development of efficient controllers while avoiding the hassle of parameter tuning a hand coded policy. This paper presents the application of a recently proposed Batch RL update-rule to learn robotic soccer controllers in the context of the RoboCup Middle Size League. The Q-Batch update-rule exploits the episodic structure of the data collection phase of Batch RL to efficiently evaluate and improve the learned policy. Three different learning tasks, with increasing difficulty, were developed and applied on a simulated environment and later on the physical robot. The performance of the learned controllers is mostly compared to hand-tuned controllers while some comparisons with other RL methods were performed. Results show that the proposed approach is able to learn the tasks in a reduced amount of time, even outperforming existing hand-coded solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICARSC.2014.6849775
ICARSC
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
intelligent robots,learning (artificial intelligence),mobile robots,multi-robot systems,sport,Q-Batch RL update-rule,RoboCup Middle Size League,data collection phase,episodic structure,learned policy,learning robotic soccer controllers,physical robot,reinforcement learning controllers,simulated environment
Conference
2573-9360
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Silva Cunha, J.P.15918.44
Serra, R.210.37
Lau, N.310.37
L.Seabra Lopes4395.78