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Main Authors: Kwon, Hyeokjin, Lee, Gunmin, Lee, Junseo, Oh, Songhwai
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02245
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author Kwon, Hyeokjin
Lee, Gunmin
Lee, Junseo
Oh, Songhwai
author_facet Kwon, Hyeokjin
Lee, Gunmin
Lee, Junseo
Oh, Songhwai
contents In the realm of autonomous agents, ensuring safety and reliability in complex and dynamic environments remains a paramount challenge. Safe reinforcement learning addresses these concerns by introducing safety constraints, but still faces challenges in navigating intricate environments such as complex driving situations. To overcome these challenges, we present the safe constraint reward (Safe CoR) framework, a novel method that utilizes two types of expert demonstrations$\unicode{x2013}$reward expert demonstrations focusing on performance optimization and safe expert demonstrations prioritizing safety. By exploiting a constraint reward (CoR), our framework guides the agent to balance performance goals of reward sum with safety constraints. We test the proposed framework in diverse environments, including the safety gym, metadrive, and the real$\unicode{x2013}$world Jackal platform. Our proposed framework enhances the performance of algorithms by $39\%$ and reduces constraint violations by $88\%$ on the real-world Jackal platform, demonstrating the framework's efficacy. Through this innovative approach, we expect significant advancements in real-world performance, leading to transformative effects in the realm of safe and reliable autonomous agents.
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spellingShingle Safe CoR: A Dual-Expert Approach to Integrating Imitation Learning and Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Constraint Rewards
Kwon, Hyeokjin
Lee, Gunmin
Lee, Junseo
Oh, Songhwai
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
In the realm of autonomous agents, ensuring safety and reliability in complex and dynamic environments remains a paramount challenge. Safe reinforcement learning addresses these concerns by introducing safety constraints, but still faces challenges in navigating intricate environments such as complex driving situations. To overcome these challenges, we present the safe constraint reward (Safe CoR) framework, a novel method that utilizes two types of expert demonstrations$\unicode{x2013}$reward expert demonstrations focusing on performance optimization and safe expert demonstrations prioritizing safety. By exploiting a constraint reward (CoR), our framework guides the agent to balance performance goals of reward sum with safety constraints. We test the proposed framework in diverse environments, including the safety gym, metadrive, and the real$\unicode{x2013}$world Jackal platform. Our proposed framework enhances the performance of algorithms by $39\%$ and reduces constraint violations by $88\%$ on the real-world Jackal platform, demonstrating the framework's efficacy. Through this innovative approach, we expect significant advancements in real-world performance, leading to transformative effects in the realm of safe and reliable autonomous agents.
title Safe CoR: A Dual-Expert Approach to Integrating Imitation Learning and Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Constraint Rewards
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02245