Performance Comparison of Two Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Small Mobile Robots

Abstrakt

The design of intelligent agents by means of reinforcement learning is studied in this paper. A relational reinforcement learning algorithm is used to achieve a compact knowledge representation. Moreover, this approach allows to improve the learning performance by augmenting the algorithm with the so-called background knowledge. A case study on simulated physical robotic agents is performed and compared with our previous evolutionary robotics experiments in order to justify our approach.