Title
Neural probabilistic motor primitives for humanoid control.
Abstract
We focus on the problem of learning a single motor module that can flexibly express a range of behaviors for the control of high-dimensional physically simulated humanoids. To do this, we propose a motor architecture that has the general structure of an inverse model with a latent-variable bottleneck. We show that it is possible to train this model entirely offline to compress thousands of expert policies and learn a motor primitive embedding space. The trained neural probabilistic motor primitive system can perform one-shot imitation of whole-body humanoid behaviors, robustly mimicking unseen trajectories. Additionally, we demonstrate that it is also straightforward to train controllers to reuse the learned motor primitive space to solve tasks, and the resulting movements are relatively naturalistic. To support the training of our model, we compare two approaches for offline policy cloning, including an experience efficient method which we call linear feedback policy cloning. We encourage readers to view a supplementary video ( https://youtu.be/CaDEf-QcKwA ) summarizing our results.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
ICLR
Motor primitives,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1811.11711
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
27
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Josh S. Merel114311.34
Leonard Hasenclever2205.42
Alexandre Galashov393.82
Arun Ahuja4727.45
Vu Pham5152.28
Greg Wayne659231.86
Yee Whye Teh76253539.26
Nicolas Heess8176294.77