Demonstration-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Efficient Exploration for Task Automation of Surgical Robot

Tao Huang,Kai Chen,Bin Li,Yun-Hui Liu,Qi Dou,Tao Huang,Kai Chen,Bin Li,Yun-Hui Liu,Qi Dou

Task automation of surgical robot has the potentials to improve surgical efficiency. Recent reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches provide scalable solutions to surgical automation, but typically require extensive data collection to solve a task if no prior knowledge is given. This issue is known as the exploration challenge, which can be alleviated by providing expert demonstrations to an R...