Reinforcement Learning for Robust Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 2nd 'AI Olympics with RealAIGym' Competition

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Main Authors: Wiebe, Felix, Turcato, Niccolò, Libera, Alberto Dalla, Choe, Jean Seong Bjorn, Choi, Bumkyu, Faust, Tim Lukas, Maraqten, Habib, Aghadavoodi, Erfan, Cali, Marco, Sinigaglia, Alberto, Giacomuzzo, Giulio, Romeres, Diego, Kim, Jong-kook, Susto, Gian Antonio, Vyas, Shubham, Mronga, Dennis, Belousov, Boris, Peters, Jan, Kirchner, Frank, Kumar, Shivesh
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author Wiebe, Felix
Turcato, Niccolò
Libera, Alberto Dalla
Choe, Jean Seong Bjorn
Choi, Bumkyu
Faust, Tim Lukas
Maraqten, Habib
Aghadavoodi, Erfan
Cali, Marco
Sinigaglia, Alberto
Giacomuzzo, Giulio
Romeres, Diego
Kim, Jong-kook
Susto, Gian Antonio
Vyas, Shubham
Mronga, Dennis
Belousov, Boris
Peters, Jan
Kirchner, Frank
Kumar, Shivesh
author_facet Wiebe, Felix
Turcato, Niccolò
Libera, Alberto Dalla
Choe, Jean Seong Bjorn
Choi, Bumkyu
Faust, Tim Lukas
Maraqten, Habib
Aghadavoodi, Erfan
Cali, Marco
Sinigaglia, Alberto
Giacomuzzo, Giulio
Romeres, Diego
Kim, Jong-kook
Susto, Gian Antonio
Vyas, Shubham
Mronga, Dennis
Belousov, Boris
Peters, Jan
Kirchner, Frank
Kumar, Shivesh
contents In the field of robotics many different approaches ranging from classical planning over optimal control to reinforcement learning (RL) are developed and borrowed from other fields to achieve reliable control in diverse tasks. In order to get a clear understanding of their individual strengths and weaknesses and their applicability in real world robotic scenarios is it important to benchmark and compare their performances not only in a simulation but also on real hardware. The '2nd AI Olympics with RealAIGym' competition was held at the IROS 2024 conference to contribute to this cause and evaluate different controllers according to their ability to solve a dynamic control problem on an underactuated double pendulum system with chaotic dynamics. This paper describes the four different RL methods submitted by the participating teams, presents their performance in the swing-up task on a real double pendulum, measured against various criteria, and discusses their transferability from simulation to real hardware and their robustness to external disturbances.
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spellingShingle Reinforcement Learning for Robust Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 2nd 'AI Olympics with RealAIGym' Competition
Wiebe, Felix
Turcato, Niccolò
Libera, Alberto Dalla
Choe, Jean Seong Bjorn
Choi, Bumkyu
Faust, Tim Lukas
Maraqten, Habib
Aghadavoodi, Erfan
Cali, Marco
Sinigaglia, Alberto
Giacomuzzo, Giulio
Romeres, Diego
Kim, Jong-kook
Susto, Gian Antonio
Vyas, Shubham
Mronga, Dennis
Belousov, Boris
Peters, Jan
Kirchner, Frank
Kumar, Shivesh
Robotics
In the field of robotics many different approaches ranging from classical planning over optimal control to reinforcement learning (RL) are developed and borrowed from other fields to achieve reliable control in diverse tasks. In order to get a clear understanding of their individual strengths and weaknesses and their applicability in real world robotic scenarios is it important to benchmark and compare their performances not only in a simulation but also on real hardware. The '2nd AI Olympics with RealAIGym' competition was held at the IROS 2024 conference to contribute to this cause and evaluate different controllers according to their ability to solve a dynamic control problem on an underactuated double pendulum system with chaotic dynamics. This paper describes the four different RL methods submitted by the participating teams, presents their performance in the swing-up task on a real double pendulum, measured against various criteria, and discusses their transferability from simulation to real hardware and their robustness to external disturbances.
title Reinforcement Learning for Robust Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 2nd 'AI Olympics with RealAIGym' Competition
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15290