Title
Improving Robot Dual-System Motor Learning with Intrinsically Motivated Meta-Control and Latent-Space Experience Imagination
Abstract
Combining model-based and model-free learning systems has been shown to improve the sample efficiency of learning to perform complex robotic tasks. However, dual-system approaches fail to consider the reliability of the learned model when it is applied to make multiple-step predictions, resulting in a compounding of prediction errors and performance degradation. In this paper, we present a novel dual-system motor learning approach where a meta-controller arbitrates online between model-based and model-free decisions based on an estimate of the local reliability of the learned model. The reliability estimate is used in computing an intrinsic feedback signal, encouraging actions that lead to data that improves the model. Our approach also integrates arbitration with imagination where a learned latent-space model generates imagined experiences, based on its local reliability, to be used as additional training data. We evaluate our approach against baseline and state-of-the-art methods on learning vision-based robotic grasping in simulation and real world. The results show that our approach outperforms the compared methods and learns near-optimal grasping policies in denseand sparse-reward environments. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.robot.2020.103630
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Meta-control,Arbitration,Experience imagination,Intrinsic motivation,Reinforcement learning,Robotic grasping
Journal
133
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0921-8890
1
0.35
References 
Authors
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Burhan Hafez1133.59
Cornelius Weber231841.92
Matthias Kerzel3327.67
Stefan Wermter41100151.62