Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization With Learned Dynamics - Supplementary

Описание: Supplementary video for the ICRA 2023 paper
"Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization With Learned Dynamics" by Bhavya Sukhija, Nathanael Kohler, Miguel Zamora, Simon Zimmermann, Sebastian Curi, Andreas Krause, Stelian Coros.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023): https://www.icra2023.org/

Abstract:
Trajectory optimization methods have achieved an exceptional level of performance on real-world robots in recent years. These methods heavily rely on accurate analytical models of the dynamics, yet some aspects of the physical world can only be captured to a limited extent. An alternative approach is to leverage machine learning techniques to learn a differentiable dynamics model of the system from data. In this work, we use trajectory optimization and model learning for performing highly dynamic and complex tasks with robotic systems in absence of accurate analytical models of the dynamics. We show that a neural network can model highly nonlinear behaviors accurately for large time horizons, from data collected in only 25 minutes of interactions on two distinct robots: (i) the Boston Dynamics Spot and an (ii) RC car. Furthermore, we use the gradients of the neural network to perform gradientbased trajectory optimization. In our hardware experiments, we demonstrate that our learned model can represent complex dynamics for both the Spot and Radio-controlled (RC) car, and gives good performance in combination with trajectory optimization methods.

Computational Robotics Lab:
http://crl.ethz.ch
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Bhavya Sukhija:
https://sukhijab.github.io/

Stelian Coros:
http://crl.ethz.ch/coros.html