Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Critical Tasks with Recovery Policy

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cao, Chenyang, Yan, Zichen, Lu, Renhao, Tan, Junbo, Wang, Xueqian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910352820666368
author Cao, Chenyang
Yan, Zichen
Lu, Renhao
Tan, Junbo
Wang, Xueqian
author_facet Cao, Chenyang
Yan, Zichen
Lu, Renhao
Tan, Junbo
Wang, Xueqian
contents Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) aims at solving goal-reaching tasks with sparse rewards from an offline dataset. While prior work has demonstrated various approaches for agents to learn near-optimal policies, these methods encounter limitations when dealing with diverse constraints in complex environments, such as safety constraints. Some of these approaches prioritize goal attainment without considering safety, while others excessively focus on safety at the expense of training efficiency. In this paper, we study the problem of constrained offline GCRL and propose a new method called Recovery-based Supervised Learning (RbSL) to accomplish safety-critical tasks with various goals. To evaluate the method performance, we build a benchmark based on the robot-fetching environment with a randomly positioned obstacle and use expert or random policies to generate an offline dataset. We compare RbSL with three offline GCRL algorithms and one offline safe RL algorithm. As a result, our method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods to a large extent. Furthermore, we validate the practicality and effectiveness of RbSL by deploying it on a real Panda manipulator. Code is available at https://github.com/Sunlighted/RbSL.git.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_01734
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Critical Tasks with Recovery Policy
Cao, Chenyang
Yan, Zichen
Lu, Renhao
Tan, Junbo
Wang, Xueqian
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
68T40
Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) aims at solving goal-reaching tasks with sparse rewards from an offline dataset. While prior work has demonstrated various approaches for agents to learn near-optimal policies, these methods encounter limitations when dealing with diverse constraints in complex environments, such as safety constraints. Some of these approaches prioritize goal attainment without considering safety, while others excessively focus on safety at the expense of training efficiency. In this paper, we study the problem of constrained offline GCRL and propose a new method called Recovery-based Supervised Learning (RbSL) to accomplish safety-critical tasks with various goals. To evaluate the method performance, we build a benchmark based on the robot-fetching environment with a randomly positioned obstacle and use expert or random policies to generate an offline dataset. We compare RbSL with three offline GCRL algorithms and one offline safe RL algorithm. As a result, our method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods to a large extent. Furthermore, we validate the practicality and effectiveness of RbSL by deploying it on a real Panda manipulator. Code is available at https://github.com/Sunlighted/RbSL.git.
title Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Critical Tasks with Recovery Policy
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
68T40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01734