A Real-World Quadrupedal Locomotion Benchmark for Offline Reinforcement Learning

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Autori principali: Zhang, Hongyin, Yang, Shuyu, Wang, Donglin
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author Zhang, Hongyin
Yang, Shuyu
Wang, Donglin
author_facet Zhang, Hongyin
Yang, Shuyu
Wang, Donglin
contents Online reinforcement learning (RL) methods are often data-inefficient or unreliable, making them difficult to train on real robotic hardware, especially quadruped robots. Learning robotic tasks from pre-collected data is a promising direction. Meanwhile, agile and stable legged robotic locomotion remains an open question in their general form. Offline reinforcement learning (ORL) has the potential to make breakthroughs in this challenging field, but its current bottleneck lies in the lack of diverse datasets for challenging realistic tasks. To facilitate the development of ORL, we benchmarked 11 ORL algorithms in the realistic quadrupedal locomotion dataset. Such dataset is collected by the classic model predictive control (MPC) method, rather than the model-free online RL method commonly used by previous benchmarks. Extensive experimental results show that the best-performing ORL algorithms can achieve competitive performance compared with the model-free RL, and even surpass it in some tasks. However, there is still a gap between the learning-based methods and MPC, especially in terms of stability and rapid adaptation. Our proposed benchmark will serve as a development platform for testing and evaluating the performance of ORL algorithms in real-world legged locomotion tasks.
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spellingShingle A Real-World Quadrupedal Locomotion Benchmark for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Zhang, Hongyin
Yang, Shuyu
Wang, Donglin
Robotics
Machine Learning
Online reinforcement learning (RL) methods are often data-inefficient or unreliable, making them difficult to train on real robotic hardware, especially quadruped robots. Learning robotic tasks from pre-collected data is a promising direction. Meanwhile, agile and stable legged robotic locomotion remains an open question in their general form. Offline reinforcement learning (ORL) has the potential to make breakthroughs in this challenging field, but its current bottleneck lies in the lack of diverse datasets for challenging realistic tasks. To facilitate the development of ORL, we benchmarked 11 ORL algorithms in the realistic quadrupedal locomotion dataset. Such dataset is collected by the classic model predictive control (MPC) method, rather than the model-free online RL method commonly used by previous benchmarks. Extensive experimental results show that the best-performing ORL algorithms can achieve competitive performance compared with the model-free RL, and even surpass it in some tasks. However, there is still a gap between the learning-based methods and MPC, especially in terms of stability and rapid adaptation. Our proposed benchmark will serve as a development platform for testing and evaluating the performance of ORL algorithms in real-world legged locomotion tasks.
title A Real-World Quadrupedal Locomotion Benchmark for Offline Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16718