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Multi-Agent Manipulation via Locomotion using Hierarchical Sim2Real

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arxiv 1908.05224 v2 pith:OOFKDM56 submitted 2019-08-13 cs.RO cs.AIcs.LG

Multi-Agent Manipulation via Locomotion using Hierarchical Sim2Real

classification cs.RO cs.AIcs.LG
keywords manipulationbehaviorshierarchicallearninglocomotionmethodmulti-agentreal-world
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Manipulation and locomotion are closely related problems that are often studied in isolation. In this work, we study the problem of coordinating multiple mobile agents to exhibit manipulation behaviors using a reinforcement learning (RL) approach. Our method hinges on the use of hierarchical sim2real -- a simulated environment is used to learn low-level goal-reaching skills, which are then used as the action space for a high-level RL controller, also trained in simulation. The full hierarchical policy is then transferred to the real world in a zero-shot fashion. The application of domain randomization during training enables the learned behaviors to generalize to real-world settings, while the use of hierarchy provides a modular paradigm for learning and transferring increasingly complex behaviors. We evaluate our method on a number of real-world tasks, including coordinated object manipulation in a multi-agent setting. See videos at https://sites.google.com/view/manipulation-via-locomotion

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