Zero-Shot Wireless Indoor Navigation through Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06766v2
• Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:19:46 GMT
• Title: Zero-Shot Wireless Indoor Navigation through Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Mingsheng Yin, Tao Li, Haozhe Lei, Yaqi Hu, Sundeep Rangan, and Quanyan Zhu
• Abstract summary: This work proposes a novel physics-informed RL (PIRL) for indoor robot navigation using wireless signals. After learning to utilize the physics information, the agent can transfer this knowledge across different tasks and navigate in an unknown environment without fine-tuning. It is shown that the PIRL significantly outperforms both e2e RL and RL-based solutions in terms of generalization and performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The growing focus on indoor robot navigation utilizing wireless signals has stemmed from the capability of these signals to capture high-resolution angular and temporal measurements. Prior heuristic-based methods, based on radio frequency propagation, are intuitive and generalizable across simple scenarios, yet fail to navigate in complex environments. On the other hand, end-to-end (e2e) deep reinforcement learning (RL), powered by advanced computing machinery, can explore the entire state space, delivering surprising performance when facing complex wireless environments. However, the price to pay is the astronomical amount of training samples, and the resulting policy, without fine-tuning (zero-shot), is unable to navigate efficiently in new scenarios unseen in the training phase. To equip the navigation agent with sample-efficient learning and {zero-shot} generalization, this work proposes a novel physics-informed RL (PIRL) where a distance-to-target-based cost (standard in e2e) is augmented with physics-informed reward shaping. The key intuition is that wireless environments vary, but physics laws persist. After learning to utilize the physics information, the agent can transfer this knowledge across different tasks and navigate in an unknown environment without fine-tuning. The proposed PIRL is evaluated using a wireless digital twin (WDT) built upon simulations of a large class of indoor environments from the AI Habitat dataset augmented with electromagnetic (EM) radiation simulation for wireless signals. It is shown that the PIRL significantly outperforms both e2e RL and heuristic-based solutions in terms of generalization and performance. Source code is available at \url{https://github.com/Panshark/PIRL-WIN}.

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