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Article Dans Une Revue The International Journal of Robotics Research Année : 2013

Fast Damage Recovery in Robotics with the T-Resilience Algorithm

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Damage recovery is critical for autonomous robots that need to operate for a long time without assistance. Most current methods are complex and costly because they require anticipating each potential damage in order to have a contingency plan ready. As an alternative, we introduce the T-Resilience algorithm, a new algorithm that allows robots to quickly and autonomously discover compensatory behaviors in unanticipated situations. This algorithm equips the robot with a self-model and discovers new behaviors by learning to avoid those that perform differently in the self-model and in reality. Our algorithm thus does not identify the damaged parts but it implicitly searches for efficient behaviors that do not use them. We evaluate the T-Resilience algorithm on a hexapod robot that needs to adapt to leg removal, broken legs and motor failures; we compare it to stochastic local search, policy gradient and the self-modeling algorithm proposed by Bongard et al. The behavior of the robot is assessed on-board thanks to a RGB-D sensor and a SLAM algorithm. Using only 25 tests on the robot and an overall running time of 20 minutes, T-Resilience consistently leads to substantially better results than the other approaches.
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hal-00932862 , version 1 (17-01-2014)

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Sylvain Koos, Antoine Cully, Jean-Baptiste Mouret. Fast Damage Recovery in Robotics with the T-Resilience Algorithm. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2013, 32 (14), pp.1700-1723. ⟨10.1177/0278364913499192⟩. ⟨hal-00932862⟩
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