Autonomous Learning Group University of Tübingen

Model-based Reinforcement Learning

Risk-Averse Planning

Risk-Averse Zero-Order Trajectory Optimization

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We introduce a simple but effective method for managing risk in zero-order trajectory optimization that involves probabilistic safety constraints and balancing of optimism in the face of epistemic uncertainty and pessimism in the face of aleatoric uncertainty of an ensemble of stochastic neural networks. Various experiments indicate that the separation of uncertainties is essential to performing well with data-driven MPC approaches in uncertain and safety-critical control environments.

Publications

Risk-Averse Zero-Order Trajectory Optimization
Risk-Averse Zero-Order Trajectory Optimization
Marin Vlastelica, Sebastian Blaes, Cristina Pinneri, Georg Martius
Conference on Robot Learning  ·  2022