An Actor-Critic Approach for Legible Robot Motion Planner
Xuan Zhao, Tingxiang Fan, Dawei Wang, Zhe Hu, Tao Han, Jia Pan
Abstract
In human-robot collaboration, it is crucial for the robot to make its intentions clear and predictable to the human partners. Inspired by the mutual learning and adaptation of human partners, we suggest an actor-critic approach for a legible robot motion planner. This approach includes two neural networks and a legibility evaluator: 1) A policy network based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL); 2) A Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) based sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) model as a motion predictor; 3) A legibility evaluator that maps motion to legible reward. Through a series of human-subject experiments, we demonstrate that with a simple handicraft function and no real-human data, our method lead to improved collaborative performance against a baseline method and a non-prediction method.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2020_anactorcriticapp,
title = {An Actor-Critic Approach for Legible Robot Motion Planner},
author = {Xuan Zhao and Tingxiang Fan and Dawei Wang and Zhe Hu and Tao Han and Jia Pan},
booktitle = {ICRA 2020},
year = {2020}
}