Summary of Rocket Landing Control with Random Annealing Jump Start Reinforcement Learning, by Yuxuan Jiang et al.
Rocket Landing Control with Random Annealing Jump Start Reinforcement Learning
by Yuxuan Jiang, Yujie Yang, Zhiqian Lan, Guojian Zhan, Shengbo Eben Li, Qi Sun, Jian Ma, Tianwen Yu, Changwu Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a significant advancement in rocket landing control using reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve a success rate of 97% on a high-fidelity rocket model. The authors tackle the challenges posed by goal-oriented problems with limited intermediate reward signals, developing the Random Annealing Jump Start (RAJS) approach. This method leverages prior feedback controllers as guide policies to facilitate environmental exploration and policy learning in RL. The proposed controller combines guide and exploration policies, employing a jump-start strategy to prune the exploration space and mitigate distribution shift issues. Additional enhancements include refined reward and terminal conditions, action smoothness regulation, and cascading jump start. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us land rockets more effectively using AI! It’s like training an expert pilot to bring the rocket safely back to Earth. The researchers developed a new way called RAJS that uses past experience to guide the learning process. This makes it easier for the rocket to land, even with limited fuel and no clear rewards along the way. They tested this method on a realistic rocket model and got a success rate of 97%! It’s an important step towards making space travel more efficient and environmentally friendly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning
