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Path Planning in Unknown Environment Based on Reinforcement Learning

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Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference

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In order to solve the path planning problem of robot in unknown environment, this paper proposes a path planning algorithm based on direction detection reinforcement learning combined with virtual sub target optimization. Firstly,the direction-detection method is proposed to replace the grid method in the discrete state, which reduces the dimension. Secondly, a virtual sub-target optimization algorithm embedded in reinforcement learning process is proposed to optimize nodes in the continuous iteration process. Finally, simulation experiments show that the convergence speed of the proposed algorithm is 98.2% higher than that of traditional reinforcement learning, and the path is more stable and smooth.

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The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61673200, 61903172), the Major Basic Research Project of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2018ZC0438) and the Key Research and Development Program of Yantai City of China (2019XDHZ085).

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Ning, X., Yang, H., Fan, Z., Han, Y. (2022). Path Planning in Unknown Environment Based on Reinforcement Learning. In: Jia, Y., Zhang, W., Fu, Y., Yu, Z., Zheng, S. (eds) Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 805. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6320-8_24

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