Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with Bounded Rationality Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11467v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:54:02 GMT
• Title: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with Bounded Rationality Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Jose-Luis Holgado-Alvarez, Aryaman Reddi, Carlo D'Eramo,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel way to endow navigation policies with robustness by a training process that models obstacles as adversarial agents.<n>We call this method versa policies via Quantal response Adrial Reinforcement Learning (Hi-QARL)
• Score: 5.760394464143113
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven largely effective in obtaining stable locomotion gaits for legged robots. However, designing control algorithms which can robustly navigate unseen environments with obstacles remains an ongoing problem within quadruped locomotion. To tackle this, it is convenient to solve navigation tasks by means of a hierarchical approach with a low-level locomotion policy and a high-level navigation policy. Crucially, the high-level policy needs to be robust to dynamic obstacles along the path of the agent. In this work, we propose a novel way to endow navigation policies with robustness by a training process that models obstacles as adversarial agents, following the adversarial RL paradigm. Importantly, to improve the reliability of the training process, we bound the rationality of the adversarial agent resorting to quantal response equilibria, and place a curriculum over its rationality. We called this method Hierarchical policies via Quantal response Adversarial Reinforcement Learning (Hi-QARL). We demonstrate the robustness of our method by benchmarking it in unseen randomized mazes with multiple obstacles. To prove its applicability in real scenarios, our method is applied on a Unitree GO1 robot in simulation.

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