Learning to dribble on a real robot by success and failure

M Riedmiller, R Hafner, S Lange… - 2008 IEEE International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning directly on real world systems such as autonomous robots is a challenging task,
especially if the training signal is given only in terms of success or failure (Reinforcement
Learning). However, if successful, the controller has the advantage of being tailored exactly
to the system it eventually has to control. Here we describe, how a neural network based RL
controller learns the challenging task of ball dribbling directly on our Middle-Size robot. The
learned behaviour was actively used throughout the RoboCup world championship …
Learning directly on real world systems such as autonomous robots is a challenging task, especially if the training signal is given only in terms of success or failure (Reinforcement Learning). However, if successful, the controller has the advantage of being tailored exactly to the system it eventually has to control. Here we describe, how a neural network based RL controller learns the challenging task of ball dribbling directly on our Middle-Size robot. The learned behaviour was actively used throughout the RoboCup world championship tournament 2007 in Atlanta, where we won the first place. This contistutes another important step within our Brainstormers project. The goal of this project is to develop an intelligent control architecture for a soccer playing robot, that is able to learn more and more complex behaviours from scratch.
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