학술논문

Constraint Inference in Control Tasks from Expert Demonstrations via Inverse Optimization
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Decision and Control (CDC), 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on. :1762-1769 Dec, 2023
Subject
Computing and Processing
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Safety
Task analysis
Optimization
Robots
Language
ISSN
2576-2370
Abstract
Inferring unknown constraints is a challenging and crucial problem in many robotics applications. When only expert demonstrations are available, it becomes essential to infer the unknown domain constraints to deploy additional agents effectively. In this work, we propose an approach to infer affine constraints in control tasks after observing expert demonstrations. We formulate the constraint inference problem as an inverse optimization problem, and we propose an alternating optimization scheme that infers the unknown constraints by minimizing a KKT residual objective. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in a number of simulations, and show that our method can infer less conservative constraints than a recent baseline method, while maintaining comparable safety guarantees.