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Active Improvement of Control Policies with Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model

Girgin, Hakan
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Pignat, E.
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Jaquier, N.
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2020
Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems
IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an intuitive framework allowing non-expert users to easily (re-)program robots. However, the quality and quantity of demonstrations have a great influence on the generalization performances of LfD approaches. In this paper, we introduce a novel active learning framework in order to improve the generalization capabilities of control policies. The proposed approach is based on the epistemic uncertainties of Bayesian Gaussian mixture models (BGMMs). We determine the new query point location by optimizing a closed-form information-density cost based on the quadratic Rényi entropy. Furthermore, to better represent uncertain regions and to avoid local optima problem, we propose to approximate the active learning cost with a Gaussian mixture model (GMM). We demonstrate our active learning framework in the context of a reaching task in a cluttered environment with an illustrative toy example and a real experiment with a Panda robot.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341187
Author(s)
Girgin, Hakan
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Pignat, E.
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Jaquier, N.
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Calinon, S.  
Date Issued

2020

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IEEE

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Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Subjects

active learning

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Bayesian Gaussian mixture model

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Learning from demonstrations

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IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Las Vegas, NV, USA

24 Oct.-24 Jan. 2021

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April 13, 2021
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