In-Distribution Barrier Functions: Self-Supervised Policy Filters that Avoid Out-of-Distribution States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12012v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:28:19 GMT
• Title: In-Distribution Barrier Functions: Self-Supervised Policy Filters that Avoid Out-of-Distribution States
• Authors: Fernando Casta\~neda, Haruki Nishimura, Rowan McAllister, Koushil Sreenath, Adrien Gaidon
• Abstract summary: We propose a control filter that wraps any reference policy and effectively encourages the system to stay in-distribution with respect to offline-collected safe demonstrations. Our method is effective for two different visuomotor control tasks in simulation environments, including both top-down and egocentric view settings.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Learning-based control approaches have shown great promise in performing complex tasks directly from high-dimensional perception data for real robotic systems. Nonetheless, the learned controllers can behave unexpectedly if the trajectories of the system divert from the training data distribution, which can compromise safety. In this work, we propose a control filter that wraps any reference policy and effectively encourages the system to stay in-distribution with respect to offline-collected safe demonstrations. Our methodology is inspired by Control Barrier Functions (CBFs), which are model-based tools from the nonlinear control literature that can be used to construct minimally invasive safe policy filters. While existing methods based on CBFs require a known low-dimensional state representation, our proposed approach is directly applicable to systems that rely solely on high-dimensional visual observations by learning in a latent state-space. We demonstrate that our method is effective for two different visuomotor control tasks in simulation environments, including both top-down and egocentric view settings.

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