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Acrobatic Agents

RL - Sapienza (AIRO) 2023/2024 - Bruno Francesco Nocera, Leonardo Colosi

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Introduction

The goal of this project was to train a humanoid agent to perform some acrobatics motions via Imitation Learning. The environment in which the simulation happens is the Humanoid3d world from pybullet [2]. In order to train our agent we choose the PPO-Agent, also implemented by [2], as the expert to imitate. The results shows that, with enough data from the expert, even a simple network is able to learn task such as performing a back-flip or a spin-kick. More interesting is the fact that combining different observation kind from the expert in a single training it is possible to develop the ability to perform different tasks with the same network.


Getting started

Environment Setup

conda create --name hum_rl python=3.7

IMPORTANT: Install pytorch from the official website. Make sure to select the right version according to your system characteristics!

Installation of gym from the official repo

git clone https://github.com/openai/gym.git ~/git || (cd ~/git ; git pull)
pip install -e ~/git

Some quick fixes may be needed

To solve MESA related problems on ubuntu 22.04 :

conda install -c conda-forge libstdcxx-ng

To solve mpi4py

conda install -c conda-forge mpi4py mpich

A downgrade of protobuf is required

pip install protobuf==3.20.*

Install all other requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir

Library incompatibility

Error with new gym registry:

File "train.py", line 318, in <module>
   main()
 File "train.py", line 200, in main
   frame_skip=args.action_repeat
 File "/home/anavani/anaconda3/envs/rad/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dmc2gym/__init__.py", line 28, in make
   if not env_id in gym.envs.registry.env_specs:
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'env_specs'

Solution:

gym.envs.registry was previously a complex class that we replaced with a dictionary for simplicity. The code should just need to be changed to if env_id not in gym.envs.registry


How to run

The easiest way is to execute the following command, inside hum_rl environment, which will run the simulation for the best agent to trained perform a backflip:

python main.py

In order to change the model type, model version, scaler type or task it is possible to execute the same command with the appropriate flags. E.g.

python main.py --model bco-fc-spinkick --version 20k --scaler 20k --task spinkick

will run the simulation for the best agent trained to perform a spin-kick. It is possible to check for all the available models and scaler by running

python main.py --info

The tag: 'xxk' indicates the number of samples used to train a certain model or to fit a certain scaler. It is possible to experiment by changing the argument passed to the main in order to try different models with different scalers for various tasks.


Useful resources

To explore some resources used/related to the project look here resources


References

[1] Peng, Xue Bin and Abbeel, Pieter and Levine, Sergey and van de Panne, Michiel, 2018, article

[2] Bullet Physics SDK bullet3

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