Bridging the gap between Learning-to-plan, Motion Primitives and Safe Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Kicki, Piotr, Tateo, Davide, Liu, Puze, Guenster, Jonas, Peters, Jan, Walas, Krzysztof
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Published: 2024
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author Kicki, Piotr
Tateo, Davide
Liu, Puze
Guenster, Jonas
Peters, Jan
Walas, Krzysztof
author_facet Kicki, Piotr
Tateo, Davide
Liu, Puze
Guenster, Jonas
Peters, Jan
Walas, Krzysztof
contents Trajectory planning under kinodynamic constraints is fundamental for advanced robotics applications that require dexterous, reactive, and rapid skills in complex environments. These constraints, which may represent task, safety, or actuator limitations, are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of robotic platforms and preventing unexpected behaviors. Recent advances in kinodynamic planning demonstrate that learning-to-plan techniques can generate complex and reactive motions under intricate constraints. However, these techniques necessitate the analytical modeling of both the robot and the entire task, a limiting assumption when systems are extremely complex or when constructing accurate task models is prohibitive. This paper addresses this limitation by combining learning-to-plan methods with reinforcement learning, resulting in a novel integration of black-box learning of motion primitives and optimization. We evaluate our approach against state-of-the-art safe reinforcement learning methods, showing that our technique, particularly when exploiting task structure, outperforms baseline methods in challenging scenarios such as planning to hit in robot air hockey. This work demonstrates the potential of our integrated approach to enhance the performance and safety of robots operating under complex kinodynamic constraints.
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spellingShingle Bridging the gap between Learning-to-plan, Motion Primitives and Safe Reinforcement Learning
Kicki, Piotr
Tateo, Davide
Liu, Puze
Guenster, Jonas
Peters, Jan
Walas, Krzysztof
Robotics
Machine Learning
Trajectory planning under kinodynamic constraints is fundamental for advanced robotics applications that require dexterous, reactive, and rapid skills in complex environments. These constraints, which may represent task, safety, or actuator limitations, are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of robotic platforms and preventing unexpected behaviors. Recent advances in kinodynamic planning demonstrate that learning-to-plan techniques can generate complex and reactive motions under intricate constraints. However, these techniques necessitate the analytical modeling of both the robot and the entire task, a limiting assumption when systems are extremely complex or when constructing accurate task models is prohibitive. This paper addresses this limitation by combining learning-to-plan methods with reinforcement learning, resulting in a novel integration of black-box learning of motion primitives and optimization. We evaluate our approach against state-of-the-art safe reinforcement learning methods, showing that our technique, particularly when exploiting task structure, outperforms baseline methods in challenging scenarios such as planning to hit in robot air hockey. This work demonstrates the potential of our integrated approach to enhance the performance and safety of robots operating under complex kinodynamic constraints.
title Bridging the gap between Learning-to-plan, Motion Primitives and Safe Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14063