Real-Robot Deep Reinforcement Learning: Improving Trajectory Tracking of Flexible-Joint Manipulator with Reference Correction

Dmytro Pavlichenko,Sven Behnke,Dmytro Pavlichenko,Sven Behnke

Flexible-joint manipulators are governed by complex nonlinear dynamics, defining a challenging control problem. In this work, we propose an approach to learn an outer-loop joint trajectory tracking controller with deep reinforcement learning. The controller represented by a stochastic policy is learned in under two hours directly on the real robot. This is achieved through bounded reference correc...