DyPNIPP: Predicting Environment Dynamics for RL-based Robust Informative Path Planning

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Main Authors: Deolasee, Srujan, Kailas, Siva, Luo, Wenhao, Sycara, Katia, Kim, Woojun
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Published: 2024
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author Deolasee, Srujan
Kailas, Siva
Luo, Wenhao
Sycara, Katia
Kim, Woojun
author_facet Deolasee, Srujan
Kailas, Siva
Luo, Wenhao
Sycara, Katia
Kim, Woojun
contents Informative path planning (IPP) is an important planning paradigm for various real-world robotic applications such as environment monitoring. IPP involves planning a path that can learn an accurate belief of the quantity of interest, while adhering to planning constraints. Traditional IPP methods typically require high computation time during execution, giving rise to reinforcement learning (RL) based IPP methods. However, the existing RL-based methods do not consider spatio-temporal environments which involve their own challenges due to variations in environment characteristics. In this paper, we propose DyPNIPP, a robust RL-based IPP framework, designed to operate effectively across spatio-temporal environments with varying dynamics. To achieve this, DyPNIPP incorporates domain randomization to train the agent across diverse environments and introduces a dynamics prediction model to capture and adapt the agent actions to specific environment dynamics. Our extensive experiments in a wildfire environment demonstrate that DyPNIPP outperforms existing RL-based IPP algorithms by significantly improving robustness and performing across diverse environment conditions.
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spellingShingle DyPNIPP: Predicting Environment Dynamics for RL-based Robust Informative Path Planning
Deolasee, Srujan
Kailas, Siva
Luo, Wenhao
Sycara, Katia
Kim, Woojun
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Informative path planning (IPP) is an important planning paradigm for various real-world robotic applications such as environment monitoring. IPP involves planning a path that can learn an accurate belief of the quantity of interest, while adhering to planning constraints. Traditional IPP methods typically require high computation time during execution, giving rise to reinforcement learning (RL) based IPP methods. However, the existing RL-based methods do not consider spatio-temporal environments which involve their own challenges due to variations in environment characteristics. In this paper, we propose DyPNIPP, a robust RL-based IPP framework, designed to operate effectively across spatio-temporal environments with varying dynamics. To achieve this, DyPNIPP incorporates domain randomization to train the agent across diverse environments and introduces a dynamics prediction model to capture and adapt the agent actions to specific environment dynamics. Our extensive experiments in a wildfire environment demonstrate that DyPNIPP outperforms existing RL-based IPP algorithms by significantly improving robustness and performing across diverse environment conditions.
title DyPNIPP: Predicting Environment Dynamics for RL-based Robust Informative Path Planning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17186