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Think fast and far: Long-horizon online POMDP planning via rapid state sampling

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Yuanchu Liang
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Edward Kim
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J. Arden Knoll
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Wil Thomason
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Zachary Kingston
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Lydia E. Kavraki
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Hanna Kurniawati
DOI:10.1177/02783649261453546delete
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<jats:p> Partially observable Markov decision processes ( <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> s) are a general and principled framework for motion planning under uncertainty. Despite tremendous improvement in the scalability of <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> solvers, long-horizon <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> s remain difficult to solve. To alleviate the difficulty, this paper proposes a new approximate online <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> solver, called reference-based online <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> planning via rapid state space sampling ( <jats:sc>rop-ras3</jats:sc> ). <jats:sc>rop-ras3</jats:sc> uses novel extremely fast sampling-based motion planning techniques to sample the state space and generate a diverse set of macro-actions online, which are then used to bias belief-space sampling and infer high-quality policies <jats:italic toggle="yes">without</jats:italic> requiring exhaustive enumeration of the action space—a fundamental constraint for modern online <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> solvers. <jats:sc>rop-ras3</jats:sc> converges to a near-optimal reference-based solution at a rate that depends on the number of sampled actions, rather than the size of the action space. <jats:sc>rop-ras3</jats:sc> is evaluated on various long-horizon <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> s with up to 3000 lookahead steps and 35-dimensional state spaces, where the state, action and observation spaces can be continuous, discrete, or a hybrid of discrete and continuous. Although the reference-based optimal solution may not be the same as the optimal <jats:sc>pomdp</jats:sc> solution, empirical results indicate that in all of these problems, in terms of success rate, <jats:sc>rop-ras3</jats:sc> <jats:italic toggle="yes">outperforms</jats:italic> other state-of-the-art methods by up to <jats:italic toggle="yes">multiple folds</jats:italic> . We also demonstrate the capability of our approach on a physical robot demonstration. This work extends the theory and empirical results of our ISRR24 paper. Code can be found at <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://github.com/RDLLab/ROPRAS3">https://github.com/RDLLab/ROPRAS3</jats:ext-link> . </jats:p>

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International Journal of Robotics Research
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