Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension

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Autori principali: Yasui, Daisuke, Matuki, Toshitaka, Sato, Hiroshi
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author Yasui, Daisuke
Matuki, Toshitaka
Sato, Hiroshi
author_facet Yasui, Daisuke
Matuki, Toshitaka
Sato, Hiroshi
contents Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been shown to achieve high performance on locomotion control tasks in MuJoCo benchmarks such as HalfCheetah, Ant, and Walker2D. However, visualizing the motion structures internally obtained by a trained policy function implemented as a deep neural network remains challenging. It is known from biomechanics and related fields that locomotion control is realized through the repetition of motion phases such as the stance phase and swing phase. In this study, we propose a framework for uncovering latent motion phase structures from trajectories generated by locomotion control policies through interaction with the environment. The proposed method extends the clustering features from state observations alone to augmented features including actions, next states, and next actions, and introduces a method for determining the number of clusters that suppresses self-transitions. Applying the proposed method to three environments -- Ant-v5, HalfCheetah-v5, and Walker2D-v5 -- we successfully identified phase structures with clearer and more regular transition rules than those obtained by the existing method.
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spellingShingle Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension
Yasui, Daisuke
Matuki, Toshitaka
Sato, Hiroshi
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been shown to achieve high performance on locomotion control tasks in MuJoCo benchmarks such as HalfCheetah, Ant, and Walker2D. However, visualizing the motion structures internally obtained by a trained policy function implemented as a deep neural network remains challenging. It is known from biomechanics and related fields that locomotion control is realized through the repetition of motion phases such as the stance phase and swing phase. In this study, we propose a framework for uncovering latent motion phase structures from trajectories generated by locomotion control policies through interaction with the environment. The proposed method extends the clustering features from state observations alone to augmented features including actions, next states, and next actions, and introduces a method for determining the number of clusters that suppresses self-transitions. Applying the proposed method to three environments -- Ant-v5, HalfCheetah-v5, and Walker2D-v5 -- we successfully identified phase structures with clearer and more regular transition rules than those obtained by the existing method.
title Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28186