Learning an Interpretable Physical Interaction Controller using RL

MSc assignment

This assignment investigates the following main research question:
How to learn interpretable physical interaction policies using RL?

This will include:

  • Design and implement the simulation learning environment in Isaac Lab.
  • Investigate the proper MDP design (observations, actions, rewards, domain randomisation) for learning interpretable physical-interaction control policies.
  • Investigate the proper feature library (e.g. polynomials, trigonometrics, etc) for learning a controller for this task.
  • Investigate the difference between direct-control policies and policies that tune a low-level controller.
  • Compare the performance with benchmark controllers such as classical controllers and learned policies (non-interpretable).
  • Experimental validation of the learned policies.