Generative adversarial imitation learning for robot swarms: Learning from human demonstrations and trained policies

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Autores principales: Kraus, Mattes, Kuckling, Jonas
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author Kraus, Mattes
Kuckling, Jonas
author_facet Kraus, Mattes
Kuckling, Jonas
contents In imitation learning, robots are supposed to learn from demonstrations of the desired behavior. Most of the work in imitation learning for swarm robotics provides the demonstrations as rollouts of an existing policy. In this work, we provide a framework based on generative adversarial imitation learning that aims to learn collective behaviors from human demonstrations. Our framework is evaluated across six different missions, learning both from manual demonstrations and demonstrations derived from a PPO-trained policy. Results show that the imitation learning process is able to learn qualitatively meaningful behaviors that perform similarly well as the provided demonstrations. Additionally, we deploy the learned policies on a swarm of TurtleBot 4 robots in real-robot experiments. The exhibited behaviors preserved their visually recognizable character and their performance is comparable to the one achieved in simulation.
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spellingShingle Generative adversarial imitation learning for robot swarms: Learning from human demonstrations and trained policies
Kraus, Mattes
Kuckling, Jonas
Robotics
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
In imitation learning, robots are supposed to learn from demonstrations of the desired behavior. Most of the work in imitation learning for swarm robotics provides the demonstrations as rollouts of an existing policy. In this work, we provide a framework based on generative adversarial imitation learning that aims to learn collective behaviors from human demonstrations. Our framework is evaluated across six different missions, learning both from manual demonstrations and demonstrations derived from a PPO-trained policy. Results show that the imitation learning process is able to learn qualitatively meaningful behaviors that perform similarly well as the provided demonstrations. Additionally, we deploy the learned policies on a swarm of TurtleBot 4 robots in real-robot experiments. The exhibited behaviors preserved their visually recognizable character and their performance is comparable to the one achieved in simulation.
title Generative adversarial imitation learning for robot swarms: Learning from human demonstrations and trained policies
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02783