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Bayesian Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Policy Adaptation Across Robotic Platforms
Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Centre for Autonomous Systems, CAS.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6920-5109
Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA..
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2021 (English)In: 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021, p. 1274-1280Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Reinforcement learning methods can achieve significant performance but require a large amount of training data collected on the same robotic platform. A policy trained with expensive data is rendered useless after making even a minor change to the robot hardware. In this paper, we address the challenging problem of adapting a policy, trained to perform a task, to a novel robotic hardware platform given only few demonstrations of robot motion trajectories on the target robot. We formulate it as a few-shot meta-learning problem where the goal is to find a meta-model that captures the common structure shared across different robotic platforms such that data-efficient adaptation can be performed. We achieve such adaptation by introducing a learning framework consisting of a probabilistic gradient-based meta-learning algorithm that models the uncertainty arising from the few-shot setting with a low-dimensional latent variable. We experimentally evaluate our framework on a simulated reaching and a real-robot picking task using 400 simulated robots generated by varying the physical parameters of an existing set of robotic platforms. Our results show that the proposed method can successfully adapt a trained policy to different robotic platforms with novel physical parameters and the superiority of our meta-learning algorithm compared to state-of-the-art methods for the introduced few-shot policy adaptation problem.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021. p. 1274-1280
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IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, ISSN 2153-0858
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Robotics and automation
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310042DOI: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636628ISI: 000755125501008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85124371197OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-310042DiVA, id: diva2:1646405
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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), SEP 27-OCT 01, 2021, ELECTR NETWORK, Prague 27 September 2021 through 1 October 2021
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QC 20220322

Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-166541714-3

Available from: 2022-03-22 Created: 2022-03-22 Last updated: 2025-02-09Bibliographically approved

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