The Neuro Slot Car Racer: Reinforcement Learning in a Real World Setting

  • Authors:
  • Tim C. Kietzmann;Martin Riedmiller

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICMLA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel real-world reinforcement learning application: The Neuro Slot Car Racer. In addition to presenting the system and first results based on Neural Fitted Q-Iteration, a standard batch reinforcement learning technique, an extension is proposed that is capable of improving training times and results by allowing for a reduction of samples required for successful training. The Neuralgic Pattern Selection approach achieves this by applying a failure-probability function which emphasizes neuralgic parts of the state space during sampling.