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Smoothed Sarsa: Reinforcement learning for robot delivery tasks

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Smoothed Sarsa: Reinforcement learning for robot delivery tasks
— Our goal in this work is to make high level decisions for mobile robots. In particular, given a queue of prioritized object delivery tasks, we wish to find a sequence of actions in real time to accomplish these tasks efficiently. We introduce a novel reinforcement learning algorithm called Smoothed Sarsa that learns a good policy for these delivery tasks by delaying the backup reinforcement step until the uncertainty in the state estimate improves. The state space is modeled by a Dynamic Bayesian Network and updated using a Region-based Particle Filter. We take advantage of the fact that only discrete (topological) representations of entity locations are needed for decision-making, to make the tracking and decision making more efficient. Our experiments show that policy search leads to faster task completion times as well as higher total reward compared to a manually crafted policy. Smoothed Sarsa learns a policy orders of magnitude faster than previous policy search algorithms....
Deepak Ramachandran, Rakesh Gupta
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Updated 23 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICRA
Authors Deepak Ramachandran, Rakesh Gupta
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