Learning Dense Rewards for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks

Zheng Wu,Wenzhao Lian,Vaibhav Unhelkar,Masayoshi Tomizuka,Stefan Schaal,Zheng Wu,Wenzhao Lian,Vaibhav Unhelkar,Masayoshi Tomizuka,Stefan Schaal

Rewards play a crucial role in reinforcement learning. To arrive at the desired policy, the design of a suitable reward function often requires significant domain expertise as well as trial-and-error. Here, we aim to minimize the effort involved in designing reward functions for contact-rich manipulation tasks. In particular, we provide an approach capable of extracting dense reward functions algo...