Enforcing the consensus between Trajectory Optimization and Policy Learning for precise robot control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09006v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:32:09 GMT
• Title: Enforcing the consensus between Trajectory Optimization and Policy Learning for precise robot control
• Authors: Quentin Le Lidec, Wilson Jallet, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid, Justin Carpentier
• Abstract summary: Reinforcement learning (RL) and trajectory optimization (TO) present strong complementary advantages. We propose several improvements on top of these approaches to learn global control policies quicker.
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• Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) and trajectory optimization (TO) present strong complementary advantages. On one hand, RL approaches are able to learn global control policies directly from data, but generally require large sample sizes to properly converge towards feasible policies. On the other hand, TO methods are able to exploit gradient-based information extracted from simulators to quickly converge towards a locally optimal control trajectory which is only valid within the vicinity of the solution. Over the past decade, several approaches have aimed to adequately combine the two classes of methods in order to obtain the best of both worlds. Following on from this line of research, we propose several improvements on top of these approaches to learn global control policies quicker, notably by leveraging sensitivity information stemming from TO methods via Sobolev learning, and augmented Lagrangian techniques to enforce the consensus between TO and policy learning. We evaluate the benefits of these improvements on various classical tasks in robotics through comparison with existing approaches in the literature.

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