Learning Adaptive Multi-Objective Robot Navigation with Demonstrations




Authors:

J. de Heuvel, T. Sethuraman, M. Bennewitz

Type:

Preprint

Published in:

arXiv preprint

Year:

2024

Links:

Preprint

BibTex String

@misc{deheuvel2024learning,
title={Learning Adaptive Multi-Objective Robot Navigation with Demonstrations},
author={Jorge de Heuvel and Tharun Sethuraman and Maren Bennewitz},
year={2024},
eprint={2404.04857},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.RO}
}
TopicTopic

Abstract:

Preference-aligned robot navigation in human environments is typicallyachieved through learning-based approaches, utilizing demonstrations and userfeedback for personalization. However, personal preferences are subject tochange and might even be context-dependent. Yet traditional reinforcementlearning (RL) approaches with a static reward function often fall short inadapting to these varying user preferences. This paper introduces a frameworkthat combines multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) withdemonstration-based learning. Our approach allows for dynamic adaptation tochanging user preferences without retraining. Through rigorous evaluations,including sim-to-real and robot-to-robot transfers, we demonstrate ourframework's capability to reflect user preferences accurately while achievinghigh navigational performance in terms of collision avoidance and goalpursuance.