Model-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Visual Demonstrations
Abstract
Scaling model-based inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) to real robotic manipulation tasks with unknown dynamics remains an open problem. The key challenges lie in learning good dynamics models, developing algorithms that scale to high-dimensional state-spaces and being able to learn from both visual and proprioceptive demonstrations. In this work, we present a gradient-based inverse reinforcement learning framework that utilizes a pre-trained visual dynamics model to learn cost functions when given only visual human demonstrations. The learned cost functions are then used to reproduce the demonstrated behavior via visual model predictive control. We evaluate our framework on hardware on two basic object manipulation tasks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.09034,
title = {Model-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Visual Demonstrations},
author = {Neha Das and Sarah Bechtle and Todor Davchev and Dinesh Jayaraman and Akshara Rai and Franziska Meier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09034},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Accepted at the 4th Conference on Robotic Learning (CoRL 2020), Cambridge MA, USA