Title
Learning high-level robotic soccer strategies from scratch through reinforcement learning
Abstract
The field of automated learning has been steadily growing in robotic tasks. This phenomenon is supported by the evolution of computational resources and new reinforcement learning algorithms. Researchers have drawn their attentions to methods that are easy to implement and tune, while achieving state-of-the-art performance. This trend also affects the world of robotic soccer, where new papers delve systematically into the optimization of basic skills. However, when learning higher-level strategies, there is space for improvement on two fronts. First, the simulation environment should allow the agent to abstract from low-level details. Second, the existing methods to train this kind of behaviors are still scarce. This paper contributes with innovative problem-solving methods, specifically in the rewards field. To test alternative approaches, an extended version of the RoboCup's official Soccer Server simulator was used. The results have confirmed the importance of the proposed reward components and their relationship with the episodes' initial conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICARSC.2019.8733606
2019 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sports,Servers,Two dimensional displays,Sockets,Reinforcement learning,Aerospace electronics,Robots
Basic skills,Scratch,Computer science,Server,Human–computer interaction,Aerospace electronics,Robot,Reinforcement learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2573-9360
978-1-7281-3558-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Miguel Abreu101.01
Luis Paulo Reis2365.98
Henrique Lopes Cardoso322334.02