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Learning to Act in Partially Structured Dynamic Environment

AAAI Conferences

We investigate the scenario that a robot needs to reach a designated goal after taking a sequence of appropriate actions in a non-static environment that is partially structured.One application example is to control a marine vehicle to move in the ocean. The ocean environment is dynamic and the ocean waves typically result in strong disturbances that can disturb the vehicle's motion. Modeling such dynamic environment is non-trivial, and integrating such model in the robotic motion control is particularly difficult. Fortunately, the ocean currents usually form some local patterns (e.g. vortex) and thus the environment is partially structured. The historically observed data can be used to train the robot to learn to interact with the ocean flow disturbances. In this paper we propose a method that applies the deep reinforcement learning framework to learn such partially structured complex disturbances.Our preliminary results show that, by training the robot under artificial and real ocean disturbances, the robot is able to successfully act in complex and spatiotemporal environments.