hello. I read your paper and am experimenting with path optimising via UR robot. First of all, thank you for making your code available to users. However, I found that the learning is not going well when I used the parameters similar to your paper. The problem is that when I set the control mode to inverse kinematics, the reward does not go above -6 and the success rate (0.1) is very low. Also, when I visualise it using the evaluation code, it does not learn well and repeats slow behaviour and the same behaviour. Can you tell me what the problem is?
Below is the name and content of the config file I used. I followed the demo code, but it didn't learn well, so I refer to the hyperparmeter in the paper, and added the one for eef_link in observation, but the result is the same.
I think your code is fantastic and I want to achieve the level of performance you talk about in the paper. I really hope you can help me with this.

generated_default_config.yaml
config that builds the env using the World Generator
run:
Algorithm:
load_model: True
model_path: "models/weights/PPO_generated_default/model_12960000_steps"
# load_model: False
# model_path: ""
type: "PPO"
config:
gamma: 0.99
learning_rate: 0.0003
n_steps : 1024
batch_size : 1024
device: "cuda"
custom_policy:
"tanh" activation_function: "tanh"
value_function:
- 128
- 64
- 64
policy_function:
- 128
- 64
- 64
train:
num_envs : 16
logging: 0
# timesteps: 15000000
timesteps: 51200000
save_freq: 30000
save_folder: "./models/weights"
save_name: "generated_default"
eval:
max_episodes: -1
logging: 1
display_delay: 0.00416666666
show_world_aux: True
show_goal_aux: True
show_sensor_aux: False
env:
Max_steps_per_episode: 1024
stat_buffer_size: 25
normalise_observations: False
normalise_rewards: False
use_physics_sim: True
gravity: [0, 0, -9.8]
sim_step: 0.00416666666
sim_steps_per_env_step: 1
robots:
- Type: "UR5"
config:
name: "ur5_1"
base_position: [0, 0, 0]
base_orientation: [0, 0, 0]
resting_angles: [-180, -45, -90, -135, 90, 0]
control_mode: 0
self_collision: True
sensors:
- Type: "PositionRotation"
config:
update_steps: 1
add_to_observation_space: True
add_to_logging: True
link_id: 'ee_link'
quaternion: False
- type: "LidarSensorGeneric"
config:
update_steps: 1
add_to_observation_space: True
add_to_logging: True
indicator_buckets: 10
ray_start: 0
ray_end: 0.4
indicator: True
ray_setup:
True ee_link: 24
wrist_1_link: 80
forearm_link: 25
goal:
Type: "PositionCollision"
config:
add_to_logging: True
continue_after_success: True
reward_success: 15
reward_collision: -15
reward_distance_mult: -0.01
dist_threshold_start: 0.2
dist_threshold_end: 0.01
dist_threshold_increment_start: 0.01
dist_threshold_increment_end: 0.001
dist_threshold_overwrite: "None"
world:
"None" type: "Generated"
config:
workspace_boundaries: [-2, 2, -2, 2, 0, 5]
obstacles:
- Type: "GroundPlate"
position: [0, 0, 0]
rotation: [0, 0, 0]
scale: 1
hello. I read your paper and am experimenting with path optimising via UR robot. First of all, thank you for making your code available to users. However, I found that the learning is not going well when I used the parameters similar to your paper. The problem is that when I set the control mode to inverse kinematics, the reward does not go above -6 and the success rate (0.1) is very low. Also, when I visualise it using the evaluation code, it does not learn well and repeats slow behaviour and the same behaviour. Can you tell me what the problem is?
Below is the name and content of the config file I used. I followed the demo code, but it didn't learn well, so I refer to the hyperparmeter in the paper, and added the one for eef_link in observation, but the result is the same.
I think your code is fantastic and I want to achieve the level of performance you talk about in the paper. I really hope you can help me with this.
generated_default_config.yaml
config that builds the env using the World Generator