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Distributionally Robust Trajectory Optimization Under Uncertain Dynamics via Relative-Entropy Trust Regions

2021-03-29 07:29:56
Hany Abdulsamad, Tim Dorau, Boris Belousov, Jia-Jie Zhu, Jan Peters

Abstract

Trajectory optimization and model predictive control are essential techniques underpinning advanced robotic applications, ranging from autonomous driving to full-body humanoid control. State-of-the-art algorithms have focused on data-driven approaches that infer the system dynamics online and incorporate posterior uncertainty during planning and control. Despite their success, such approaches are still susceptible to catastrophic errors that may arise due to statistical learning biases, unmodeled disturbances or even directed adversarial attacks. In this paper, we tackle the problem of dynamics mismatch and propose a distributionally robust optimal control formulation that alternates between two relative-entropy trust region optimization problems. Our method finds the worst-case maximum-entropy Gaussian posterior over the dynamics parameters and the corresponding robust optimal policy. We show that our approach admits a closed-form backward-pass for a certain class of systems and demonstrate the resulting robustness on linear and nonlinear numerical examples.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15388

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.15388.pdf


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