Reinforcement learning-based mobile robot navigation

Authors : Nihal ALTUNTAŞ, Erkan İMAL, Nahit EMANET, Ceyda Nur ÖZTÜRK

Pages : 1747-1767

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In recent decades, reinforcement learning insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(RL); has been widely used in different research fields ranging from psychology to computer science. The unfeasibility of sampling all possibilities for continuous-state problems and the absence of an explicit teacher make RL algorithms preferable for supervised learning in the machine learning area, as the optimal control problem has become a popular subject of research. In this study, a system is proposed to solve mobile robot navigation by opting for the most popular two RL algorithms, Sarsainsert ignore into journalissuearticles values($\lambda );$ and Qinsert ignore into journalissuearticles values($\lambda );$. The proposed system, developed in MATLAB, uses state and action sets, defined in a novel way, to increase performance. The system can guide the mobile robot to a desired goal by avoiding obstacles with a high success rate in both simulated and real environments. Additionally, it is possible to observe the effects of the initial parameters used by the RL methods, e.g., $\lambda $, on learning, and also to make comparisons between the performances of Sarsainsert ignore into journalissuearticles values($\lambda );$ and Qinsert ignore into journalissuearticles values($\lambda );$ algorithms.
Keywords : Reinforcement learning, temporal difference, eligibility traces, Sarsa, Q learning, mobile robot navigation, obstacle avoidance