First, Learn What You Don't Know: Active Information Gathering for Driving at the Limits of Handling
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| author | Davydov, Alexander Djeumou, Franck Greiff, Marcus Suminaka, Makoto Thompson, Michael Subosits, John Lew, Thomas |
| author_facet | Davydov, Alexander Djeumou, Franck Greiff, Marcus Suminaka, Makoto Thompson, Michael Subosits, John Lew, Thomas |
| contents | Combining data-driven models that adapt online and model predictive control (MPC) has enabled effective control of nonlinear systems. However, when deployed on unstable systems, online adaptation may not be fast enough to ensure reliable simultaneous learning and control. For example, a controller on a vehicle executing highly dynamic maneuvers--such as drifting to avoid an obstacle--may push the vehicle's tires to their friction limits, destabilizing the vehicle and allowing modeling errors to quickly compound and cause a loss of control. To address this challenge, we present an active information gathering framework for identifying vehicle dynamics as quickly as possible. We propose an expressive vehicle dynamics model that leverages Bayesian last-layer meta-learning to enable rapid online adaptation. The model's uncertainty estimates are used to guide informative data collection and quickly improve the model prior to deployment. Dynamic drifting experiments on a Toyota Supra show that (i) the framework enables reliable control of a vehicle at the edge of stability, (ii) online adaptation alone may not suffice for zero-shot control and can lead to undesirable transient errors or spin-outs, and (iii) active data collection helps achieve reliable performance. |
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| spellingShingle | First, Learn What You Don't Know: Active Information Gathering for Driving at the Limits of Handling Davydov, Alexander Djeumou, Franck Greiff, Marcus Suminaka, Makoto Thompson, Michael Subosits, John Lew, Thomas Robotics Machine Learning Systems and Control Combining data-driven models that adapt online and model predictive control (MPC) has enabled effective control of nonlinear systems. However, when deployed on unstable systems, online adaptation may not be fast enough to ensure reliable simultaneous learning and control. For example, a controller on a vehicle executing highly dynamic maneuvers--such as drifting to avoid an obstacle--may push the vehicle's tires to their friction limits, destabilizing the vehicle and allowing modeling errors to quickly compound and cause a loss of control. To address this challenge, we present an active information gathering framework for identifying vehicle dynamics as quickly as possible. We propose an expressive vehicle dynamics model that leverages Bayesian last-layer meta-learning to enable rapid online adaptation. The model's uncertainty estimates are used to guide informative data collection and quickly improve the model prior to deployment. Dynamic drifting experiments on a Toyota Supra show that (i) the framework enables reliable control of a vehicle at the edge of stability, (ii) online adaptation alone may not suffice for zero-shot control and can lead to undesirable transient errors or spin-outs, and (iii) active data collection helps achieve reliable performance. |
| title | First, Learn What You Don't Know: Active Information Gathering for Driving at the Limits of Handling |
| topic | Robotics Machine Learning Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00107 |