Energy-Based Legged Robots Terrain Traversability Modeling via Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Energy-Based Legged Robots Terrain Traversability Modeling via Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning
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DOI:
10.1109/lra.2022.3188100
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发表时间:
2022-07
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Lu Gan;J. Grizzle;R. Eustice;Maani Ghaffari
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作者:
Lu Gan;J. Grizzle;R. Eustice;Maani Ghaffari
This work reports ondeveloping a deep inverse reinforcement learning method for legged robots terrain traversability modeling that incorporates both exteroceptive and proprioceptive sensory data. Existing works use robot-agnostic exteroceptive environmental features or handcrafted kinematic features; instead, we propose to also learn robot-specific inertial features from proprioceptive sensory data for reward approximation in a single deep neural network. Incorporating the inertial features can improve the model fidelity and provide a reward that depends on the robot’s state during deployment. We train the reward network using the Maximum Entropy Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning (MEDIRL) algorithm and propose simultaneously minimizing a trajectory ranking loss to deal with the suboptimality of legged robot demonstrations. The demonstrated trajectories are ranked by locomotion energy consumption, in order to learn an energy-aware reward function and a more energy-efficient policy than demonstration. We evaluate our method using a dataset collected by an MIT Mini-Cheetah robot and a Mini-Cheetah simulator. The code is publicly available.1