Learning Design and Construction with Varying-Sized Materials via Prioritized Memory Resets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05509v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 03:45:48 GMT
• Title: Learning Design and Construction with Varying-Sized Materials via Prioritized Memory Resets
• Authors: Yunfei Li, Tao Kong, Lei Li and Yi Wu
• Abstract summary: Can a robot autonomously learn to design and construct a bridge from varying-sized blocks without a blueprint? It is a challenging task with long horizon and sparse reward -- the robot has to figure out physically stable design schemes and feasible actions to manipulate and transport blocks. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical approach for this problem. It consists of a reinforcement-learning designer to propose high-level building instructions and a motion-planning-based action generator to manipulate blocks at the low level.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Can a robot autonomously learn to design and construct a bridge from varying-sized blocks without a blueprint? It is a challenging task with long horizon and sparse reward -- the robot has to figure out physically stable design schemes and feasible actions to manipulate and transport blocks. Due to diverse block sizes, the state space and action trajectories are vast to explore. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical approach for this problem. It consists of a reinforcement-learning designer to propose high-level building instructions and a motion-planning-based action generator to manipulate blocks at the low level. For high-level learning, we develop a novel technique, prioritized memory resetting (PMR) to improve exploration. PMR adaptively resets the state to those most critical configurations from a replay buffer so that the robot can resume training on partial architectures instead of from scratch. Furthermore, we augment PMR with auxiliary training objectives and fine-tune the designer with the locomotion generator. Our experiments in simulation and on a real deployed robotic system demonstrate that it is able to effectively construct bridges with blocks of varying sizes at a high success rate. Demos can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/bridge-pmr.

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