gym-gazebo2, a toolkit for reinforcement learning using ROS 2 and Gazebo
Nestor Gonzalez Lopez, Yue Leire Erro Nuin, Elias Barba Moral, Lander Usategui San Juan, Alejandro Solano Rueda, Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Risto Kojcev
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Abstract
This paper presents an upgraded, real world application oriented version of gym-gazebo, the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo based Reinforcement Learning (RL) toolkit, which complies with OpenAI Gym. The content discusses the new ROS 2 based software architecture and summarizes the results obtained using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). Ultimately, the output of this work presents a benchmarking system for robotics that allows different techniques and algorithms to be compared using the same virtual conditions. We have evaluated environments with different levels of complexity of the Modular Articulated Robotic Arm (MARA), reaching accuracies in the millimeter scale. The converged results show the feasibility and usefulness of the gym-gazebo 2 toolkit, its potential and applicability in industrial use cases, using modular robots.