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Visual Memory for Robust Path Following

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this paper, we present an approach for doing so. Given a demonstration of a path, a first network generates an abstraction of the path. Equipped with this abstraction, a second network then observes the world and decides how to act in order to retrace the path under noisy actuation and a changing environment. The two networks are optimized end-to-end at training time. We evaluate the method in two realistic simulators, performing path following both forwards and backwards. Our experiments show that our approach outperforms both a classical approach to solving this task as well as a number of other baselines.




Reviews: Visual Memory for Robust Path Following

Neural Information Processing Systems

This paper considers the problem of retrace the trajectory from noisy visual observations. The proposed approach firstly takes a sequence of images of the path and encode as sequential memories. In the online setting, a neural network is able to attend to the past memory and take actions accordingly. The algorithm has been verified over two interesting 3D indoor scene dataset. Pros: * The paper is very well-written.


Robust Path Following on Rivers Using Bootstrapped Reinforcement Learning

Paulig, Niklas, Okhrin, Ostap

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper develops a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-agent for navigation and control of autonomous surface vessels (ASV) on inland waterways. Spatial restrictions due to waterway geometry and the resulting challenges, such as high flow velocities or shallow banks, require controlled and precise movement of the ASV. A state-of-the-art bootstrapped Q-learning algorithm in combination with a versatile training environment generator leads to a robust and accurate rudder controller. To validate our results, we compare the path-following capabilities of the proposed approach to a vessel-specific PID controller on real-world river data from the lower- and middle Rhine, indicating that the DRL algorithm could effectively prove generalizability even in never-seen scenarios while simultaneously attaining high navigational accuracy.


Visual Memory for Robust Path Following

Kumar, Ashish, Gupta, Saurabh, Fouhey, David, Levine, Sergey, Malik, Jitendra

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this paper, we present an approach for doing so. Given a demonstration of a path, a first network generates an abstraction of the path. Equipped with this abstraction, a second network then observes the world and decides how to act in order to retrace the path under noisy actuation and a changing environment. The two networks are optimized end-to-end at training time. We evaluate the method in two realistic simulators, performing path following both forwards and backwards.


Visual Memory for Robust Path Following

Kumar, Ashish, Gupta, Saurabh, Fouhey, David, Levine, Sergey, Malik, Jitendra

Neural Information Processing Systems

Humans routinely retrace a path in a novel environment both forwards and backwards despite uncertainty in their motion. In this paper, we present an approach for doing so. Given a demonstration of a path, a first network generates an abstraction of the path. Equipped with this abstraction, a second network then observes the world and decides how to act in order to retrace the path under noisy actuation and a changing environment. The two networks are optimized end-to-end at training time. We evaluate the method in two realistic simulators, performing path following both forwards and backwards. Our experiments show that our approach outperforms both a classical approach to solving this task as well as a number of other baselines.