Towards a common implementation of reinforcement learning for multiple robotic tasks

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Highlights:

• A value-iteration-based algorithm is effectively applied to multiple robotic tasks.

• Novel, efficient method improves softmax action selection by structuring the inputs.

• Resulted RL method improves model-free solutions with minimal task knowledge.

• Compatible with high-dimensional RL with low computational cost.

• A new software framework allows us to test and compare diverse RL algorithms.

摘要

•A value-iteration-based algorithm is effectively applied to multiple robotic tasks.•Novel, efficient method improves softmax action selection by structuring the inputs.•Resulted RL method improves model-free solutions with minimal task knowledge.•Compatible with high-dimensional RL with low computational cost.•A new software framework allows us to test and compare diverse RL algorithms.

论文关键词:Reinforcement learning,Robotics,Exploration

论文评审过程:Received 5 April 2017, Revised 4 October 2017, Accepted 5 November 2017, Available online 6 November 2017, Version of Record 21 February 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.11.011