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Deep Reinforcement Learning with Transfer Learning - Simulated Drone and Environment (DRLwithTL-Sim)

What is DRLwithTL-Sim?

This repository uses Transfer Learning (TL) based approach to reduce on-board computation required to train a deep neural network for autonomous navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning for a target algorithmic performance. A library of 3D realistic meta-environments is manually designed using Unreal Gaming Engine and the network is trained end-to- end. These trained meta-weights are then used as initializers to the network in a simulated test environment and fine-tuned for the last few fully connected layers. Variation in drone dynamics and environmental characteristics is carried out to show robustness of the approach. The repository containing the code for real environment on a real DJI Tello drone can be found @ DRLwithTL-Real

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Introductory Video

Installing DRLwithTL

For detailed instructions on how to install, configure and run DRLwithTL, please refer PEDRA

Citing

If you find this repository useful for your research please use the following bibtex citations

@ARTICLE{2019arXiv191005547A,
       author = {Anwar, Aqeel and Raychowdhury, Arijit},
        title = "{Autonomous Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Constraint Edge Nodes using Transfer Learning}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     keywords = {Computer Science - Machine Learning, Statistics - Machine Learning},
         year = "2019",
        month = "Oct",
          eid = {arXiv:1910.05547},
        pages = {arXiv:1910.05547},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {1910.05547},
 primaryClass = {cs.LG},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv191005547A},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

@article{yoon2019hierarchical,
  title={Hierarchical Memory System With STT-MRAM and SRAM to Support Transfer and Real-Time Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Drones},
  author={Yoon, Insik and Anwar, Malik Aqeel and Joshi, Rajiv V and Rakshit, Titash and Raychowdhury, Arijit},
  journal={IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems},
  volume={9},
  number={3},
  pages={485--497},
  year={2019},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Authors

Aqeel Anwar - Georgia Institute of Technology

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details