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Simulation-based reinforcement learning for real-world autonomous driving

Machine Learning 2024-04-04 v4 Artificial Intelligence Robotics

Abstract

We use reinforcement learning in simulation to obtain a driving system controlling a full-size real-world vehicle. The driving policy takes RGB images from a single camera and their semantic segmentation as input. We use mostly synthetic data, with labelled real-world data appearing only in the training of the segmentation network. Using reinforcement learning in simulation and synthetic data is motivated by lowering costs and engineering effort. In real-world experiments we confirm that we achieved successful sim-to-real policy transfer. Based on the extensive evaluation, we analyze how design decisions about perception, control, and training impact the real-world performance.

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@article{arxiv.1911.12905,
  title  = {Simulation-based reinforcement learning for real-world autonomous driving},
  author = {Błażej Osiński and Adam Jakubowski and Piotr Miłoś and Paweł Zięcina and Christopher Galias and Silviu Homoceanu and Henryk Michalewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12905},
  year   = {2024}
}
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