Design of semi-decentralized control laws for distributed-air-jet micromanipulators by reinforcement learning

  • Authors:
  • Laëtitia Matignon;Guillaume J. Laurent;Nadine Le Fort-Piat

  • Affiliations:
  • FEMTOST/UFC-ENSMM-UTBM-CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France;FEMTOST/UFC-ENSMM-UTBM-CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France;FEMTOST/UFC-ENSMM-UTBM-CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

  • Venue:
  • IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, a great deal of interest has been developed in learning in multi-agent systems to achieve decentralized control. Machine learning is a popular approach to find controllers that are tailored exactly to the system without any prior model. In this paper, we propose a semi-decentralized reinforcement learning control approach in order to position and convey an object on a contact-free MEMS-based distributed-manipulation system. The experimental results validate the semi-decentralized reinforcement learning method as a way to design control laws for such distributed systems.