Physical Simulation for Multi-agent Multi-machine Tending

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Main Authors: Abdalwhab, Abdalwhab, Beltrame, Giovanni, St-Onge, David
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Published: 2024
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author Abdalwhab, Abdalwhab
Beltrame, Giovanni
St-Onge, David
author_facet Abdalwhab, Abdalwhab
Beltrame, Giovanni
St-Onge, David
contents The manufacturing sector was recently affected by workforce shortages, a problem that automation and robotics can heavily minimize. Simultaneously, reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising solution where robots can learn through interaction with the environment. In this work, we leveraged a simplistic robotic system to work with RL with "real" data without having to deploy large expensive robots in a manufacturing setting. A real-world tabletop arena was designed with robots that mimic the agents' behavior in the simulation. Despite the difference in dynamics and machine size, the robots were able to depict the same behavior as in the simulation. In addition, those experiments provided an initial understanding of the real deployment challenges.
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spellingShingle Physical Simulation for Multi-agent Multi-machine Tending
Abdalwhab, Abdalwhab
Beltrame, Giovanni
St-Onge, David
Robotics
Machine Learning
The manufacturing sector was recently affected by workforce shortages, a problem that automation and robotics can heavily minimize. Simultaneously, reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising solution where robots can learn through interaction with the environment. In this work, we leveraged a simplistic robotic system to work with RL with "real" data without having to deploy large expensive robots in a manufacturing setting. A real-world tabletop arena was designed with robots that mimic the agents' behavior in the simulation. Despite the difference in dynamics and machine size, the robots were able to depict the same behavior as in the simulation. In addition, those experiments provided an initial understanding of the real deployment challenges.
title Physical Simulation for Multi-agent Multi-machine Tending
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19761