Deep Reinforcement Learning - Pretraining actor-critic networks using state representation learning

In control, the objective is to find a mapping from states to actions that steer a system to a desired reference. A controller can be designed by an engineer, typically using some model of the system or it can be learned by an algorithm. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one such algorithm. In RL, the controller is an agent that interacts with the...

Generative CoLearn: steering and cost prediction with generative adversarial nets in kinodynamic RRT

Kinodynamic planning is motion planning in state space and aims to satisfy kinematic and dynamic constraints. To reduce its computational cost, a popular approach is to use sampling based methods such as RRT with off-line machine learning for estimating the steering cost and inputs. However, scalability and robustness are still open challenges...