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Freek Stulp, Jonas Buchli, Evangelos Theodorou, and Stefan Schaal. Reinforcement Learning of Full-body Humanoid Motor Skills.
In 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 405–410, 2010. Best paper finalist
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Applying reinforcement learning to humanoid robots is challenging because humanoids have a large number of degrees of freedom
and state and action spaces are continuous. Thus, most reinforcement learning algorithms would become computationally infeasible
and require a prohibitive amount of trials to explore such high-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we present a probabilistic
reinforcement learning approach, which is derived from the framework of stochastic optimal control and path integrals. The
algorithm, called Policy Improvement with Path Integrals (PI^2), has a surprisingly simple form, has no open tuning parameters
besides the exploration noise, is model-free, and performs numerically robustly in high dimensional learning problems. We
demonstrate how PI^2 is able to learn full-body motor skills on a 34-DOF humanoid robot. To demonstrate the generality of
our approach, we also apply PI^2 in the context of variable impedance control, where both planned trajectories and gain schedules
for each joint are optimized simultaneously.
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@InProceedings{stulp10reinforcement,
title = {Reinforcement Learning of Full-body Humanoid Motor Skills},
author = {Freek Stulp and Jonas Buchli and Evangelos Theodorou and Stefan Schaal},
booktitle = {10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots},
year = {2010},
note = {{\bf Best paper finalist}},
pages = {405-410},
abstract = {Applying reinforcement learning to humanoid robots is challenging because humanoids have a large number of degrees of freedom and state and action spaces are continuous. Thus, most reinforcement learning algorithms would become computationally infeasible and require a prohibitive amount of trials to explore such high-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we present a probabilistic reinforcement learning approach, which is derived from the framework of stochastic optimal control and path integrals. The algorithm, called Policy Improvement with Path Integrals (PI^2), has a surprisingly simple form, has no open tuning parameters besides the exploration noise, is model-free, and performs numerically robustly in high dimensional learning problems. We demonstrate how PI^2 is able to learn full-body motor skills on a 34-DOF humanoid robot. To demonstrate the generality of our approach, we also apply PI^2 in the context of variable impedance control, where both planned trajectories and gain schedules for each joint are optimized simultaneously.},
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