Inverse Reinforcement Learning with High-Level Task Information (Year 1)

Abstract

This report describes research to discover means by which future Army robotic systems could learn new behaviors from human teammates while still verifiably meeting system and mission specifications. Within the first year, research was conducted on learning jointly from human demonstrations and specifications given in linear temporal logic, under conditions of partial observability. The research demonstrated success within a simple grid world environment. Research is ongoing to extend this progress to more complicated environments, such as that of the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory's autonomy stack Unity environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1149439

Entities

People

  • Craig Lennon

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Autonomy
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Demonstrations
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Learning
  • Military Research
  • Navigation
  • Neural Networks
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Reliability
  • Robot Navigation
  • Robots
  • Specifications
  • Training
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy