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Episodic Learning with Control Lyapunov Functions for Uncertain Robotic Systems
Many modern nonlinear control methods aim to endow systems with guaranteed
properties, such as stability or safety, and have been successfully applied to
the domain of robotics. However, model uncertainty remains a persistent
challenge, weakening theoretical guarantees and causing implementation failures
on physical systems. This paper develops a machine learning framework centered
around Control Lyapunov Functions (CLFs) to adapt to parametric uncertainty and
unmodeled dynamics in general robotic systems. Our proposed method proceeds by
iteratively updating estimates of Lyapunov function derivatives and improving
controllers, ultimately yielding a stabilizing quadratic program model-based
controller. We validate our approach on a planar Segway simulation,
demonstrating substantial performance improvements by iteratively refining on a
base model-free controller
Coordinated Multi-Agent Imitation Learning
We study the problem of imitation learning from demonstrations of multiple
coordinating agents. One key challenge in this setting is that learning a good
model of coordination can be difficult, since coordination is often implicit in
the demonstrations and must be inferred as a latent variable. We propose a
joint approach that simultaneously learns a latent coordination model along
with the individual policies. In particular, our method integrates unsupervised
structure learning with conventional imitation learning. We illustrate the
power of our approach on a difficult problem of learning multiple policies for
fine-grained behavior modeling in team sports, where different players occupy
different roles in the coordinated team strategy. We show that having a
coordination model to infer the roles of players yields substantially improved
imitation loss compared to conventional baselines.Comment: International Conference on Machine Learning 201
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