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@InProceedings{AAMASWS10-barrett,
author = "Samuel Barrett and Matt E.\ Taylor and Peter Stone",
title = "Transfer Learning for Reinforcement Learning on a Physical Robot",
booktitle = "Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop (AAMAS - ALA)",
location = "Toronto, Canada",
month = "May",
year = "2010",
abstract = {
As robots become more widely available, many capabilities that were once
only practical to develop and test in simulation are becoming feasible
on real, physically grounded, robots. This newfound feasibility is
important because simulators rarely represent the world with sufficient
fidelity that developed behaviors will work as desired in the real
world. However, development and testing on robots remains difficult and
time consuming, so it is desirable to minimize the number of trials
needed when developing robot behaviors.
This paper focuses on reinforcement learning (RL) on physically grounded
robots. A few noteworthy exceptions notwithstanding, RL has typically
been done purely in simulation, or, at best, initially in simulation
with the eventual learned behaviors run on a real robot. However, some
recent RL methods exhibit sufficiently low sample complexity to enable
learning entirely on robots. One such method is transfer learning for
RL. The main contribution of this paper is the first empirical
demonstration that transfer learning can significantly speed up and even
improve asymptotic performance of RL done entirely on a physical robot.
In addition, we show that transferring information learned in simulation
can bolster additional learning on the robot.
},
wwwnote={AAMAS ALA 2010},
}