Robot Navigation with Reinforcement Learned Path Generation and Fine-Tuned Motion Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10639v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:10:52 GMT
• Title: Robot Navigation with Reinforcement Learned Path Generation and Fine-Tuned Motion Control
• Authors: Longyuan Zhang, Ziyue Hou, Ji Wang, Ziang Liu and Wei Li
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel reinforcement learning based path generation (RL-PG) approach for mobile robot navigation without a prior exploration of an unknown environment. We deploy our model on both simulation and physical platforms and demonstrate our model performs robot navigation effectively and safely.
• Score: 5.187605914580086
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based path generation (RL-PG) approach for mobile robot navigation without a prior exploration of an unknown environment. Multiple predictive path points are dynamically generated by a deep Markov model optimized using RL approach for robot to track. To ensure the safety when tracking the predictive points, the robot's motion is fine-tuned by a motion fine-tuning module. Such an approach, using the deep Markov model with RL algorithm for planning, focuses on the relationship between adjacent path points. We analyze the benefits that our proposed approach are more effective and are with higher success rate than RL-Based approach DWA-RL and a traditional navigation approach APF. We deploy our model on both simulation and physical platforms and demonstrate our model performs robot navigation effectively and safely.

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