Title
Sample-Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning With Imaginary Rollouts For Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract
Deep reinforcement learning has proven to be a great success in allowing agents to learn complex tasks. However, its application to actual robots can be prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, the unpredictability of human behavior in human-robot interaction tasks can hinder convergence to a good policy. In this paper, we present an architecture that allows agents to learn models of stochastic environments and use them to accelerate learning. We descirbe how an environment model can be learned online and used to generate synthetic transitions, as well as how an agent can leverage these synthetic data to accelerate learning. We validate our approach using an experiment in which a robotic arm has to complete a task composed of a series of actions based on human gestures. Results show that our approach leads to significantly faster learning, requiring much less interaction with the environment. Furthermore, we demonstrate how learned models can be used by a robot to produce optimal plans in real world applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967834
2019 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer science,The Imaginary,Control engineering,Human–computer interaction,Human–robot interaction,Reinforcement learning
Conference
2153-0858
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad Thabet100.34
Massimiliano Patacchiola2315.55
Angelo Cangelosi301.01