Section: New Software and Platforms

DMP-BBO

Black-Box Optimization for Dynamic Movement Primitives

Functional Description: The DMP-BBO Matlab library is a direct consequence of the insight that black-box optimization outperforms reinforcement learning when using policies represented as Dynamic Movement Primitives. It implements several variants of the PIBB algorithm for direct policy search. The dmp-bbo C++ library has been extended to include the “unified model for regression”. The implementation of several of the function approximators have been made real-time compatible.

• Participant: Freek Stulp

• Partner: ENSTA

• Contact: Freek Stulp

• URL: https://github.com/stulp/dmpbbo