reward function design

[Joll123]

Does your reward function contain obstacle distance information?

[ElhadjHoussem]

Hi,
The distance to obstacles is what the Neuronal network actually learning from as Input , which are the Laser signal ( Normalized [0-1]) beside the one-hot vector of oriontation.
It could be added to the reward, but i think it will disturb the information that lead to the goal, and it will make the robot more rotating around himself, cause it can bring him more hight reward from that.

[Joll123]

thank you for your reply. I am working on obstacle avoidance mobile robot navigation. I added obstacle distance information to the reward, making it difficult for the neural network to find the target.