Safe Reinforcement Learning With Dead-Ends Avoidance and Recovery

X Zhang, H Zhang, H Zhou, C Huang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is one of the main challenges in applying reinforcement learning to tasks in realistic
environments. To ensure safety during and after the training process, existing methods tend …

A Safe and Self-Recoverable Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous Robots

W Wang, X Zhou, B Xu, M Lu… - 2022 41st Chinese …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) holds the promise of autonomous robots because it can adapt
to dynamic or unknown environments by automatically learning optimal control policies from …

Safe reinforcement learning using robust control barrier functions

Y Emam, G Notomista, P Glotfelter… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to be effective in many scenarios. However, it
typically requires the exploration of a sufficiently large number of state-action pairs, some of …

Learning to Recover for Safe Reinforcement Learning

H Wang, X Yuan, Q Ren - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.11907, 2023 - arxiv.org
Safety controllers is widely used to achieve safe reinforcement learning. Most methods that
apply a safety controller are using handcrafted safety constraints to construct the safety …

Safe reinforcement learning using data-driven predictive control

M Selim, A Alanwar, MW El-Kharashi… - … Processing, and their …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can achieve state-of-the-art performance in decision-
making and continuous control tasks. However, applying RL algorithms on safety-critical …

Recovery rl: Safe reinforcement learning with learned recovery zones

B Thananjeyan, A Balakrishna, S Nair… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety remains a central obstacle preventing widespread use of RL in the real world:
learning new tasks in uncertain environments requires extensive exploration, but safety …

Safe Reinforcement Learning with Contrastive Risk Prediction

H Zhang, Y Guo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.09648, 2022 - arxiv.org
As safety violations can lead to severe consequences in real-world robotic applications, the
increasing deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robotic domains has propelled the …

Safe reinforcement learning by imagining the near future

G Thomas, Y Luo, T Ma - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Safe reinforcement learning is a promising path toward applying reinforcement learning
algorithms to real-world problems, where suboptimal behaviors may lead to actual negative …

Safety guided policy optimization

D Kim, Y Kim, K Lee, S Oh - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In reinforcement learning (RL), exploration is essential to achieve a globally optimal policy
but unconstrained exploration can cause damages to robots and nearby people. To handle …

Evaluating model-free reinforcement learning toward safety-critical tasks

L Zhang, Q Zhang, L Shen, B Yuan, X Wang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Safety comes first in many real-world applications involving autonomous agents. Despite a
large number of reinforcement learning (RL) methods focusing on safety-critical tasks, there …