@inproceedings{Lim:2022:10.1145/3512290.3528715,
author = {Lim, BWT and Reichenbach, A and Cully, A},
doi = {10.1145/3512290.3528715},
title = {Learning to walk autonomously via reset-free quality-diversity},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3512290.3528715},
year = {2022}
}

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms can discover large and complex behavioural repertoires consisting of both diverse and high-performing skills. However, the generation of behavioural repertoires has mainly been limited to simulation environments instead of real-world learning. This is because existing QD algorithms need large numbers of evaluations as well as episodic resets, which require manual human supervision and interventions. This paper proposes Reset-Free Quality-Diversity optimization (RF-QD) as a step towards autonomous learning for robotics in open-ended environments. We build on Dynamics-Aware Quality-Diversity (DA-QD) and introduce a behaviour selection policy that leverages the diversity of the imagined repertoire and environmental information to intelligently select of behaviours that can act as automatic resets. We demonstrate this through a task of learning to walk within defined training zones with obstacles. Our experiments show that we can learn full repertoires of legged locomotion controllers autonomously without manual resets with high sample efficiency in spite of harsh safety constraints. Finally, using an ablation of different target objectives, we show that it is important for RF-QD to have diverse types solutions available for the behaviour selection policy over solutions optimised with a specific objective. Videos and code available at this https URL.
AU  - Lim,BWT
AU  - Reichenbach,A
AU  - Cully,A
DO  - 10.1145/3512290.3528715
PY  - 2022///
TI  - Learning to walk autonomously via reset-free quality-diversity
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3512290.3528715
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/96342
ER  - 

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