Title
Guiding Robot Model Construction with Prior Features
Abstract
Virtually all robot control methods benefit from the availability of an accurate mathematical model of the robot. However, obtaining a sufficient amount of informative data for constructing dynamic models can be difficult, especially when the models are to be learned during robot deployment. Under such circumstances, standard data-driven model learning techniques often yield models that do not comply with the physics of the robot. We extend a symbolic regression algorithm based on Single Node Genetic Programming by including the prior model information into the model construction process. In this way, symbolic regression automatically builds models that compensate for theoretical or empirical model deficiencies. We experimentally demonstrate the approach on two real-world systems: the TurtleBot 2 mobile robot and the Parrot Bebop 2 drone. The results show that the proposed model-learning algorithm produces realistic models that fit well the training data even when using small training sets. Passing the prior model information to the algorithm significantly improves the model accuracy while speeding up the search.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9635831
2021 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Model learning for control, AI-based methods, genetic programming, prior knowledge
Conference
2153-0858
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erik Derner135.81
Jirí Kubalík2116.50
Robert Babuska32200164.90